Novotorgsky Borisoglebsky Monastery

ul. Staritskaya, 7, Torzhok

 Sights of Torzhok The territory of the Novorozhsky Borisoglebsky monastery, one of the oldest Russian Orthodox monasteries, founded around 1038 during the reign of Yaroslav I Vladimirovich, almost invariably impresses guests of Torzhok time with the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

Manor Vasilevo

g. Torzhok, Tver region

 Sightseeings of Torzhok About 5 km to the north of Torzhok there is an architectural ensemble of the 18th century - the estate of Vasilevo. It is remarkable first of all for the ethnographic museum of wooden architecture, which was opened in 1979, in which architectural monuments of the 18th-19th centuries from all over the Tver region are collected.

Museum at the Torzhok gold-embers factory

Kalininskoe shosse 12, Torzhok

 Sights of Torzhok The small Russian town of Torzhok is unique in that it retains its own ancient craft - gold embroidery. That same gold embroidery, which was embroidered shoes and belts of capital ladies of the 18-19 century and royal furniture in the imperial palaces. Feel the spirit of the times?

Museum of Pushkin in Torzhok

ul. Dzerzhinsky, 71, Torzhok

 Attractions Torzhok Torzhok is part of the so-called Pushkin Ring of the Upper Volga Region - a 250 km route connected with Alexander Pushkin's visit to the Tver Region. The poet came here more than twenty times, and it is no wonder that in our time a number of museums have been created here devoted to the journeys of the "sun of Russian poetry."

Old Church Church in Torzhok

g. Torzhok, Tver region

Sightseeings of Torzhok On the elevation of the right bank of the river Tvertsy there is a monument of wooden Russian architecture - and the current Old-Church Church in Torzhok, or the Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God. The first mention of this church in Torzhok dates back to 1653.

"The city is magnificent, the city is poor". Of course, this is written by Pushkin not about Torzhok. But both definitions are suitable for the description of this ancient Russian city. "Lush" it has a huge number of historical buildings, and "poor" in fact of financial insecurity.

Although Torzhok has the status of a monument to town planning and is included in the list of historic cities in Russia, it does not receive adequate funding for preserving its sights.

This is one of the reasons to visit Torzhok! At least to have time to see Russian history personally, until it finally turned into ruins

Walk along the quay of the Tvertsa River in Torzhok along the unique facades of the 17-19th centuries, visit to the complex of the Borisoglebsky monastery of the 18th century, a trip to the Vasilevo estate in the spirit of Turgenev's " Noble Nest ", an examination of the symbolic grave of Anna Kern in Prutna - these and many other impressions are able to transfer you to the times sung by Pushkin.

Ancient city, about which in 1668 the traveler Jacob Streis wrote:" Torzhok is very is populated and beautiful because there are more than thirty churches and chapels in it, "and nowadays it keeps its spiritual treasures.