The spring is located near the Okovtsy village 25 km from Selizharovo, the district center. The water of this spring is comparable to glacial meltwater in quality. The spring has been a sacred site after the appearance of the Okovets Holy Mother Icon in 1539.

In the mini-park there stands the Monument to A. A. Akhmatova, N. S. Gumilyov and L. N. Gumilyov (the sculptor A. N. Kovalchuk) erected in 2003. In Bezhetsk and the estate Slepnevo of Bezhetsk district, owned by Nikolay Gumilyov's mother, the childhood of Lev Gumilev (1912-1992), the famous...

The majestic the Cathedral of the Korsun Icon of the Mother of God (Korsunsko-Bogoroditsky) with shining golden domes was consecrated in honor of the Korsun-Ephesian Blessed Virgin Icon painted, as legend has it, by Luke the Evangelist while the Blessed Virgin was still alive. According to the...

Near the local history museum, on the shore of the lake, there is a block of granite with an anchor and a sea chain. It is very unusual to see the signs of the sea here, in the land Toropets. On a cast-iron bas-relief of an old frigate, there is a portrait and an inscription: "To Admiral Rikord PI,...

Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior in Toropets, brick, three-altar, built between 1680 and 1720, belongs to the type of one-apse pillarless temples. Tikhon's childhood The locally revered icon of the All-Merciful Savior was kept in the church. Rector of the Church of the...

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...