Kimry Art Nouveau (Zarechye)

17 points1 km0 hours

Today we invite you to explore the sights of Zarechye, the part of Kimry across the river. In the village of Kimry, in Zarechye (that is, across the little Kimrka River), a church has stood since time immemorial. It is first mentioned in documents from 1635, and ever since then Zarechye has also been called the Ascension side. On this route you'll mostly see quirky wooden houses in the early 20th-century Art Nouveau style. Art Nouveau was the last major style of pre-revolutionary Russia, flourishing from the late 1880s to the early 1900s. Its hallmarks include fanciful roofs, rounded windows, little balconies and benches by the entrance, and rich carved decoration.

Route author

Susanin Team

Things to do

📜 Learn the city's history
👀 Watch city life

Route points (17)

House of the Peasant V. S. Shokin (the “Craftsman's House”) in Kimry

Point on route “Kimry Art Nouveau (Zarechye)”

Point 4

House of the Peasant V. S. Shokin (the “Craftsman's House”)

🕵️ Urban legend

A House with a History

The “Craftsman's House” is an old wooden home that once belonged to the cottage-industry shoemaker Vladimir Spiridonovich Shokin. It is of great architectural and cultural importance for Kimry and the Tver region: the outstanding Russian photographer Leonid Shokin and the talented Kimry artist Makary Shokin spent their childhood and youth within these walls, and the great Soviet aircraft designer Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev visited here. The building is a cultural heritage site. It was built in 1902.