Ivanov has written this landscape in days of the full creative maturity. The Via Appia constructed still by Romans during antique times, goes on boundless plain. It is an ancient way on which once took place incalculable Roman legions along which there were crosses with the crucified slaves and Christian martyrs. This district, and is represented here Roman Kampanja – the witness of history of mankind. Are lengthways expensive – the tombs of the first Christians hardly planned, almost aeriform. We see a heath treated in a somewhat generalized manner: in the middle ground is a small hill, then a group of ruins, and behind them, at a distance, the buildings and dome of the Cathedral of St Peter depicted on a very small scale. All is insignificant, all is reduced to a shadow in the face of inevitable time. This landscape – unique, which Ivanov named "historical".