The Botanical Garden of Tver State University is a well-maintained natural habitat in Tver 's historical center, where the Tvertsa River flows into the Volga. The Garden was founded in 1879 by Ilya Bobrov, the honorary Tver citizen merchant of the first guild, who bought several plots and laid...

Torzhok is a picturesque city in the Tver region of Russia on the banks of the Tvertsa River, the center of the Torzhok region. It is a commercial city known since the 12th century. Then it was called New Trading. From the very beginning, the city was part of the Novgorod region and is closely...

The restaurant of the elite village "Olgino" in the Tver region is the embodiment of luxury, classic interior style and extraordinary comfort. The interior is dominated by pastel colors with gold, elegant and cozy furniture, and a magnificent view opens from the huge windows. European, Russian...

Main square of the city, the Sovetskaya square, has the shape of a semicircle with a radius of 60 meters. In May 2008 the monument to Mikhail Yaroslavich of Tver was erected on the square (the author of the composition A.N. Kovalchuk).

The residents of Toropa have honored the memory of Alexander Nevsky for many years. In Toropets, a street and a central square are named after him. One of the legends about the prince is associated with an oak tree planted on the shores of Lake Nagovskoye. In 1239, returning to Novgorod after...

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...

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...