The great Russian river Volga takes its rise close to Volgoverkhovye village. The source of the river is inside a chapel from where the Volga comes as a small brook any child can step over. The Savior Transfiguration Cathedral of the Olginsky Nunnery stands in immediate proximity to the source.

Trekhsvyatskaya Street is one of the city central streets. The Street was named after the Trekhsvyatsky Monastery, located on the place of the actual Palace of Children and Youth Creation. This pedestrian street is called "Tver Arbat" due to various artists exhibiting their paintings here and...

The embroidery with gold and silver threads came to Russia from Byzantium and there - from the Arab East.Torzhok craft is known in Russia since the X century. In 1899 an educational-model gold embroidery workshop was opened, and in 1911 the first museum was created there, the exhibits of which were...

In 1820 in the center of the New hillfort the new Boris and Gleb Cathedral under the project of Luigi Rusca was built in the mean forms of late Classicism. Its free-standing bell tower with the Church of the Holy Savior's Image (1827) in the lower tier was built according to the design of the...

The museum was created in 1964 on a voluntary basis, in the early 1980s it became part of the Tver State United Museum. The exposition includes a collection of ethnographic exhibits, reflecting the life and everyday life of Krasny Kholm’s peasants in the XVIII-XX centuries. Also there are...

Lake Brosno is located in the western part of the Andreapol region, in the west of the Valdai Upland. It belongs to the river basin. Western Dvina, going to the Gulf of Riga of the Baltic Sea, and is connected with it through the river. Brosnitsa, which flows into the river. Volkota, which, in...

Likhoslavl is a pottery centre with ancient traditions. During the excursion, you will pass through the shops of the well-known enterprise « Художественные промыслы» (artisanal handicraft) and see the whole technological process from the preparation of clay to the finished ceramic product,...