It housed the museum of the famous opera singer, the soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre, the People's Artist of the USSR Alexei Petrovich Ivanov (1904-1982); as well as the exhibition hall, the souvenir shop, the restaurant «The barrel house "Aleko"». The center conducts the musical...

The manor Chukavino located at 15 km from Staritsa on the way of Tver. In the surroundings of century old oaks there is the manor house, the outbuilding with the family blason on the face, the Church of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God (vladimirskaya) The old park deswcends to the Volga by...

Gallery collections are one of the best collections of Russian art. Here are the portraits by F.S. Rokotov and V.L. Borovikovsky; the masterpieces of A.G. Venetsianov and his students; landscapes by I.I. Levitan, K.A. Korovin, I.E. Grabar; masterpieces  by Valentin Serov and many others. In...

At 12 km from Bezhetsk in the village of Gradnitsy in the village library the Museum and Literary Center of A. A. Akhmatova and N. S. Gumilev "The House of Poets" operates for many years. It is located in an old manor house transported from the abandoned manor of Slepnevo in 1935. This is the very...

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 the Kuvshinovo district there is the Pryamukhino manor which is annually visited by thousands of Russian and foreign tourists. The history of the manor is inseparably associated with the well-known in Russia Bakunin family. The diplomat and writer Alexander Michaylovich Bakunin having...

In 2014 the Museum of Kasha and Kashin traditions was opened in the mansion of the merchants the Zapenins (XIX). On the last Saturday of June in Kashin there is conducted the traditional annual culinary festival «Let's brew kasha in Kashin».