This route introduces you to Tver's main sights, from cathedrals and monuments to a creative cluster and the embankments. Let's get going!
Square of the Holy Blessed Prince Mikhail of Tver
⛲ Square · 📜 Historic site
Monument to Mikhail Yaroslavich of Tver
🗿 Monument
Andrei Dementyev Monument
🗿 Monument
Stepan Razin Embankment
🚶♂️ Waterfront · 📜 Historic site · 🏟️ Architectural landmark
Dormition Cathedral
🕍 Place of worship · 📜 Historic site · 🏟️ Architectural landmark
New Volga Bridge
🌉 Bridge · ⚙️ Industrial site
House of the Voroshilov Marksmen
📜 Historic site · 🏟️ Architectural landmark
Zvezda Cinema
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
City Garden
🌿 Public garden or park · 📜 Historic site
“Galley Tver” Art Piece
🎨 Art installations
“To A. S. Pushkin” Sculptural Composition
🗿 Sculptures
Travel Palace
🏰 Palace · 🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Old Volga Bridge
🌉 Bridge · 📜 Historic site · 🕵️ Urban legend
Point 4
🚶♂️ Waterfront • 📜 Historic site • 🏟️ Architectural landmark
On Stepan Razin Embankment you begin to understand why Tver is sometimes compared to St. Petersburg. First, the houses along the street stand wall to wall, a style also used in St. Petersburg. Second, two bridges can be seen from here at once, the New Volga and the Old Volga, which also recalls the city on the Neva. The embankment also offers a beautiful panorama of the mouth of the Tvertsa River, the Dormition Cathedral, and the Holy Catherine Convent.
One of the city's chief adornments, the “single facade,” is the fruit of the genius of the architect Pyotr Nikitin. It was according to his master plan that Tver was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1763. Empress Catherine the Great appraised the efforts of this outstanding architect thus: “Tver is the most beautiful city after Petersburg.” And the empress knew a thing or two about architecture.
Each building has 9 window bays: this was how Pyotr Nikitin immortalized the memory of Empress Catherine II (the number of letters in the empress's name in Russian, Ekaterina).
On May 2, 1767, the flotilla carrying the empress set off down the Volga toward Simbirsk. Along the new houses on the right bank, icons of saints were placed in every window, so that misfortune would pass the empress by on her journey, and candles were burning.
Point on route “Hurry to Tver”
Point 4
🚶♂️ Waterfront • 📜 Historic site • 🏟️ Architectural landmark
On Stepan Razin Embankment you begin to understand why Tver is sometimes compared to St. Petersburg. First, the houses along the street stand wall to wall, a style also used in St. Petersburg. Second, two bridges can be seen from here at once, the New Volga and the Old Volga, which also recalls the city on the Neva. The embankment also offers a beautiful panorama of the mouth of the Tvertsa River, the Dormition Cathedral, and the Holy Catherine Convent.
One of the city's chief adornments, the “single facade,” is the fruit of the genius of the architect Pyotr Nikitin. It was according to his master plan that Tver was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1763. Empress Catherine the Great appraised the efforts of this outstanding architect thus: “Tver is the most beautiful city after Petersburg.” And the empress knew a thing or two about architecture.
Each building has 9 window bays: this was how Pyotr Nikitin immortalized the memory of Empress Catherine II (the number of letters in the empress's name in Russian, Ekaterina).
On May 2, 1767, the flotilla carrying the empress set off down the Volga toward Simbirsk. Along the new houses on the right bank, icons of saints were placed in every window, so that misfortune would pass the empress by on her journey, and candles were burning.
13 points
4 km
2.5 hours
