←Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic

Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic

Photo of route “Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic”
12 points29 km4 hours

The name Tikhvin sounds soft and brings to mind something “quiet” (tikhy in Russian), like river water. And that's no accident: translated from a Finno-Ugric language, tikh and vin mean “water” and “way.” On this route you'll learn how life flowed, and sometimes seethed, in this “water” town. The route was designed especially for the BelkaCar car-sharing service.

Route author

Susanin Team

Things to do

  • 🏞️ Enjoy the view
  • 🌲🦋 Enjoy nature

Route points (12)

  1. Tikhvin Dormition Monastery of the Mother of God — point on route “Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic”

    Tikhvin Dormition Monastery of the Mother of God

    🕍 Place of worship

  2. Tikhvin Historical, Memorial, Architectural, and Art Museum — point on route “Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic”

    Tikhvin Historical, Memorial, Architectural, and Art Museum

    🏛️ Museum

  3. Tikhvin Water System — point on route “Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic”

    Tikhvin Water System

    ⚙️ Industrial site

  4. Park of Generations — point on route “Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic”

    Park of Generations

    🌿 Public garden or park

  5. Hérouville-Saint-Clair Park — point on route “Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic”

    Hérouville-Saint-Clair Park

    🌿 Public garden or park

  6. Znamenskaya Church (Church of the Sign) in Tikhvin — point on route “Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic”

    Znamenskaya Church (Church of the Sign) in Tikhvin

    🕍 Place of worship

  7. Freedom Square — point on route “Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic”

    Freedom Square

    ⛲ Square

  8. Transfiguration Cathedral — point on route “Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic”

    Transfiguration Cathedral

    🕍 Place of worship

  9. Chapel of the Holy Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky — point on route “Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic”

    Chapel of the Holy Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky

    🕍 Place of worship

  10. Rimsky-Korsakov House Museum — point on route “Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic”

    Rimsky-Korsakov House Museum

    🏛️ Museum · 🏟️ Architectural landmark

  11. Convent of the Presentation — point on route “Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic”

    Convent of the Presentation

    🕍 Place of worship

  12. Tsaritsyno Lake — point on route “Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic”

    Tsaritsyno Lake

    🌿 Public garden or park · 🔭 Viewpoint

Tikhvin Historical, Memorial, Architectural, and Art Museum in Tikhvin

Point on route “Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic”

Tikhvin Historical, Memorial, Architectural, and Art Museum — point on route “Along the Way from the Volga to the Baltic”

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Tikhvin Historical, Memorial, Architectural, and Art Museum

🏛️ Museum

Historical Background

The museum is located in the city, on the grounds of the Tikhvin Dormition Monastery of the Mother of God. It was founded in 1913 on the initiative of the Tikhvin local historian I. P. Mordvinov. It all began with the Tikhvin branch of the Novgorod Society of Lovers of Antiquity, which carried out extensive public educational work. The museum's first exhibition was devoted to the 300th anniversary of the victory over the Swedish invaders in the uprising of 1613. By the 1920s the museum's holdings already included collections of old icons and manuscript books, exhibits from the period of the war against the invaders, and a range of geological, archaeological, and ethnographic materials gathered on expeditions around the region. In 1941 the museum's work was halted and its collections hidden. But on November 8 the Nazi forces managed to capture Tikhvin, and several valuable exhibits were lost; their fate is still unknown. Part of the collection was also destroyed when a shell hit the building during the fighting for the city. The museum reopened only in 1959, thanks to the teachers of School No. 1. For 10 years the students, led by their teachers, collected parts of the collections from local residents and re-created the exhibitions. The museum has been located at the Mother of God Monastery since 1968, and most of the buildings on the grounds were placed under its management. In 1995 the monastery complex was revived, and the brethren and the museum began to share their life there. Later the process of transferring the buildings to the church began; today the Tikhvin Museum occupies 3 buildings on the monastery grounds.