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...

August 29, 1609 the Russian army led by M. V. Skopin-Shuisky won the decisive victory over the Polish-Lithuanian invaders in the battle at the Konstantinovskoe field near the Zhabna river. In 2009 to the 400th anniversary of this victory the monument to the outstanding Russian commander Mikhail...

The history of the city of Konakovo began with the fact that in 1809 the Bohemian pharmacist Friedrich Christian Brinner opened a faience factory in the village of Domkino of the Korcheva uyezd in the Tver province. A year later he sold it to the Livonian pharmaceutist A. Ya. Auerbach. New owner of...

Only in the Iskra Museum, you will see a camera for secret photography in the form of a coat button, the first SLR in the world, award cameras for army leadership, anniversary and rare models. The permanent exhibition of photographic equipment from the first bellows at the turn of the 19th and...

The Children's Museum Center is a truly modern children's space with carefully designed interactive programs and advanced technologies. There are exhibitions, a variety of master classes, regular classes for children's studios, multidimensional actions to significant historical events, classes and...

From the bell tower the wooden Ascention Church (Voznesenskaya) is clearly visible, it stands on the high bank of the Tvertsa river. 

In 2008 at the intersection of the Kalyazin central streets of Tverskaya and Moscovskaya the Monument to the Blessed Macarius (the sculptor Е. A. Antonov) was opened. In June 2012 the relics of Macarius of Kalyazin were moved from Tver to the restored Ascension Church. June, 8 - the day of the...