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Probably, the work is related to the theatrical activity of the artist. A study with a girl peering into the distance through an open gate, languidly waiting for something, can be a sketch for the opera "The Maid of Pskov", for which he painted in the same year the sketch named "The Old Pskov". The buildings of ancient Pskov and the Russian plains viewed through the open gates, with hills, a river and an ancient temple on top, with a blue sky and light clouds – we can see all this in the same perspective in several other Roerich's works created in 1922: "And We Open the Gate", "Saint Sergius". A far landscape, painted through an open gate, attracts the viewer's eye, thereby showing that the events that will follow will come from there.