Ostashkov is a very integral and picturesque city, picturesquely located on the peninsula on Lake Seliger. It is distinguished by an interesting layout, original civil architecture, churches and monasteries of the 17th and 19th centuries

Content 1 How to get 1.1 Search for air tickets to Moscow (nearest a / p to Ostashkov) 2 It is interesting 3 Hotels and restaurants 4 Entertainment, excursions and attractions Ostashkova 4.1 Church Ostashkov 5 Neighborhood Ostashkov 5.1 Also we recommend

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By train Moscow - Ostashkov, on the way 12 hours. By bus: from Moscow (on the way 7 hours) and Tver (on the way for 4 hours)

On a car from Moscow, it is necessary to go along the M10 highway through Tver to Torzhok, then along A111, 360 km. From St. Petersburg - either along the M10 route through Torzhok and then along A111 by asphalt, or along the M10 and then through Demyansk-Molotitsy by grader.

It's interesting

Thanks to the fact that Ostashkov is a real hermit city playing hide and seek with civilization and its noisy motorways, a large number of buildings and churches of the 18th-19th century remained in its vicinity. . However, there is a downside to this medal: Desolation comes the town and the surrounding villages, but because of a lack of work the residents are moving to megacities . The shoe factory puffs out of its last strength, continuing to maintain the fame of Ostashkov, the footwear production center, supplying the famous souvenir market to the local souvenir market . Yes, tourists regularly visit to give a penny or two, and leave with a bunch of emotions, buckets of berries and mushrooms and bags of local fish and game, which so far in abundance .

Hotels and restaurants

Be prepared that prices will be high. The cheapest option: the bus station hotel (entrance to the backyard) - 400r. per day. Address: Privokzalnaya street, 5, phone (48235) 2-40-14. You can look into the hotel complex "Seliger" at the address: Chaykin Pereulok, 18, telephones (48235) 5-10-33, 5-13-51. But it is best to settle in the camp site. There are a lot of them here, the conditions are spartan.

The restaurant industry in the city is not very good, there is a cafe "Nautilus" at Work Street, 17.

Entertainment, excursions and attractions Ostashkova

What to see? Briefly, then: The Znamensky Monastery, the Zhitenny Monastery (includes the Odigitrievsky Cathedral, the Gate Church of St. John the Divine and the Church of St. Andrew the First-Called with the Refectory), the ancient Resurrection Church (known for well-preserved icons painted by local painter Mina Kolokolnikov). More - on.

However, Ostashkov's main asset is his civil architecture, an exceptionally coherent and well-preserved urban environment of the small town. This is the town hall, the building of the city theater (here for the first time the uncensored version of Griboedov's "Sorrow from Mind" was played), and the nearby brick building of the fire brigade with a tall wooden tower. Noteworthy are many buildings on Volodarsky Street, in particular, the Mitin family of artists, the building of the museum of local lore

But the most valuable thing that Ostashkov's old residents managed to preserve is the old houses with mezzanines, carvings, and somewhere in the interior of the cottage of those times when the city was a noisy stanitsa, suggesting fear of neighbors and for which Tver and Moscow were fiercely fighting.

Ostashkov's Church

Znamensky Monastery, which is located to the south of the city center, nd was the Ascension Cathedral, bell tower and residential buildings, no longer acts

Next exhibit -. Jiten monastery in the north of the city, on the peninsula Zhitnyaya. There are preserved buildings from the time of its foundation, but their condition leaves much to be desired. Restoration, which slowly proceeds in its Odigitrievsky Cathedral, the churches of St. John the Divine and St. Andrew the First-Called with the refectory, may change the state of affairs in the near future. Further the path leads to two temples, stubbornly standing between the streets of Volodarsky and Pechatnikov opposite each other.

Ancient Resurrection Church still takes under its arches residents to concerts and musical evenings. Her neighbor, Naryshkinsky Trinity Cathedral, is the biggest and beautiful Ostashkova church, which, by the way, completely retains its original appearance, opening its doors every day, except Monday from 11:00 to 18:00, as a local history museum. Address: Volodarsky street, 19, phone: (48235) 5-16-46.

Neighborhood Ostashkov

Klichen Island is not even a village, it is an untouched corner of Russian nature in which you can get across the bridge from the island Zhitnoe. This is the most beloved natural tourist attraction in Ostashkov.

Gorodomly Island is located five kilometers from Ostashkov, a secret place in the archipelago of the islands. Once upon a time there were engaged in the development of rocket engines. In the summer time, there goes the thermal bike "Bryansk."

Kravotyn is a village 15 kilometers north of Ostashkov. Having reached here on a narrow primer, you find yourself in a miniature medieval village of a real Russian village. On winding trails brick houses are stuck, there is a Vvedenskaya church, a cemetery, a bell tower.

The village of Zaplavye hid for 15 km further. Local architecture will be richer than the previous one: carvings on facades, inscriptions. In the vicinity there is a hunting reserve. Buhvostovo is the remains of the old Tolstoy manor, a park and an impressive abandoned manor house are preserved

New Yelets is a village on the southern shore of the Berezovsky Patch, 30 km from Ostashkov. Here is another estate of the Tolstoys, apparently, well-to-do comrades were. If you go 40 km straight from Ostashkov, you can get to the village Zaluchye. According to the ratings of holidaymakers, the most beautiful place in Seliger. And on the nature of the fish can be caught, and in the Berezovsky fort site of the ancestors once again marvel.

And for a dessert visit to the Nilova desert - a monastery on the island of Stolbny, 10 kilometers north of Ostashkov. You can get to the lake or by road on the bus, which runs 3 times a day, is located in front of the village of Svetlitsa, from which the island is connected by a bridge, so you can swim on the excursion boat or take a taxi for 300-350 rubles. The oldest monument of Orthodox Russian architecture, a crazy place.

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