Sergey Prisekin created an astonishingly powerful and energetic canvas: "Who Comes with the Sword Shall Perish by the Sword!" Before the viewer unfolds not only the historical event of the once-performed Battle on the Ice, the wise Prince Alexander, and the brave Russian warriors. The painting embeds something deeper inside. Perhaps even a path to understanding one's place in the world, realizing one's true destiny. That's the name given to the diploma work of Moscow Surikov Art Institute graduate Sergey Prisekin, painted in 1983. The seven-meter canvas by the young painter was immediately accepted in academic circles and exhibited at the Tretyakov Gallery. Since 1987, the painting adorned the interiors of the Soviet embassy in France, and on the night before Easter Sunday in 1993, by special order of the President of Russia, it was flown from Paris to Moscow and subsequently placed at the end of the main staircase of the Bolshoi Kremlin Palace's avançala. The work, executed in the best traditions of battle painting, was nothing but the diploma work of a graduate of the Moscow State Surikov Art Institute.