The unique Karelian National Museum of Local Lore was created in the city. The material for the main exposition was collected in expeditions along the Karelian villages of the Tver region.

In 1921 the relics of Ephraim and Arcadius, the saints of Torzhok, were carried to the Annunciation (Michael the Archangel) Church (Blagoveshenskaya); it was active longer than others after the revolution. After a while, here appeared the relics of St.Juliana of Torzhok. The Annunciation Church was...

The Church of All Saints is a cemetery church, built in 1794 at the expense of the townspeople. A wooden gatehouse was built at the temple, and the cemetery was surrounded by a lattice fence with stone pillars. In 1895 the fence was renewed at the own expense of the church headman, Toropets...

Monument to Ivan Andreyevich Krylov was opened on August 14, 1959 and located in the park over the T’maka River near the place where it inflows into the Volga. The authors of the Monument are sculptors S. D. Shaposhnikov, D. V. Gorlov and architect N. V. Donskikh. It is known that the...

Small Toropetskoe settlement (Krivit), which is a city detinets (Kremlin), is located in the southwestern part of Toropets, on the western shore of a large lake. Straw, flowing on the river. In a hurry. Alexander Nevsky got married here In 1239, Prince Alexander Yaroslavich (the future...

The bell tower of St. Nicholas Cathedral, which stood once upon a time on the Cathedral square of the merchant city, is a monument to the cities that went under the waters of the river. It is often called the monument to Tver Atlantis: in 1939 the creation of the Uglich reservoir led to the...

In the Kimry museum of Local Lore the unique collection of shoes made by local handicraftsmen and shoemakers is presented. Here one can learn everything about the legendary "Petrine Boots", see the fancy shoes of the XVIII- XIX centuries, look at the Kimry shoe- makers of the XX century...