The beautiful and well-cared-for Church of the Prophet Elijah (llyinskaya) meets the guests at the entrance to Staritsa from the Tver side. Services were conducted in it since 1784, from the moment of consecration of side altar of St. Catherine. The church is named llyinskaya the second side altar...

During the Great Patriotic War der. Pozhnya Toropetsky district was the place where partisan bases were located. Here they underwent training, and then liaison, sabotage groups, partisan detachments were thrown into the enemy rear. Therefore, the Museum of Partisan Glory was created in Pozhna,...

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 the museum for visitors there are permanent exhibitions " Vyshny Volochyok Water Way", "The archeological antiquities of the Vyshny Volochyok lands", " Vyshny Volochyok region during the Great Patriotic War" and others, the art gallery with an interesting paintings collection.

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...

The All-Russian Historical and Ethnographic Museum (RHEM) In 1998 the All-Russian Historical and Ethnographic Museum was created in Torzhok. The museum is located in the historic center of the city in several buildings - monuments of architecture of the XVIII-XIX centuries. In the...

AT SOME MOMENT IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, COFFEE SHOPS BECAME SOMETHING DIFFERENT. They stopped serving coffee and started serving drinks. Laptops and smartphones replaced newspapers and neighbors and things got too complicated. At Marmelatta we strive to take a break from the chaos....