Shiksha is a glamping for comfortable camping on Khachin Island, in the heart of Seliger. For those who like to wake up to the singing of birds, walk barefoot in the dew and drink coffee, sitting on the steps of their home, breathing in the aroma of freshly cut grass. We know that city dwellers...

The Church of the Archangel Michael is located at the entrance to the village of Krasnoselie. In 1682 a church in the name of the Archangel Michael was already towered in Knyazhe Selo. It was built by the Toropchanin Sergey Skvortsov. His relative, the nobleman Mitrofan Skvortsov, in 1721 added a...

Poetry House was opened in the Tver historical center on the Volodarskogo street in 2012; it is the only one Russian cultural institution of that kind. In 2013 the Poetry House was named by the outstanding Soviet and Russian poet and laureate of USSR State Prize (1985) Andrew Dementyev who was born...

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...

Life-Giving Trinity Church beyond T’maka River area is the oldest Tver architectural building; it was built by donations from the Moscow merchant Gavrila Andreyevich Tushinsky in 1564. The color of the roof and cupolas covered with unusual white tiles was the reason why the Church got a...

Here, on the high bank of the Volga, there is the white stone church Blessed Virgin Nativity Church (XIV) built in memory of the Russian weapons victory in the Kulikovo field. This is the only survived monument of the Tver principality times. The cross-domed church having four internal piers is...

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...