A Walk Along Millionnaya

16 points2 km0 hours

A. L. Konovalova, a student at the Tver College of Service and Tourism, together with the Tver Tourist Information Center, invites you for a walk along Millionnaya (“Millionaires' Street”), the old name of Tver's main street, to discover your hometown anew and be inspired by its rich history! We look forward to seeing you!

Route author

Tver Tourist Information Center

Things to do

📜 Learn the city's history
🔍🖼️ Spot interesting details
📸 Take photos

Route points (16)

Stereoscope in Tver

Point on route “A Walk Along Millionnaya”

Point 5

Stereoscope

⏳ Ponder the eternal • 🏛️🕰️ Compare the eras

Description

In 2023, 8 stereoscopes were installed in the tourist center of Tver. A stereoscope is a binocular optical device for viewing “three-dimensional” photographs. These show lost buildings, streets, and views of the city.

Historical Background

And every photo has its own story. Take, for example, the image of the Church of the Miracle-Working Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God from the collection of A. N. Semenov, a philocartist* and researcher of the history of Tver photography. The Vladimir Church stood at the corner of Sovetskaya Street and Studenchesky Lane. Its slender bell tower crowned with a spire was built in the mature Classical style that appeared in Tver architecture in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In the 1930s the church was blown up. You can read detailed information about the lost church by pointing your phone at the QR code on the stereoscope. Today the Seliger Hotel stands on this site. Yet relics of the most famous and revered saints were once kept in the church that stood here. *Philocarty is the collecting of illustrated postcards.

Architecture

The Vladimir Church in Tver was an outstanding building in the mature Classical style and became an important example of early 19th-century church architecture. Construction began in 1793 and ended with the consecration of the church in 1806. The church had side chapels dedicated to St. George and St. Paraskeva Pyatnitsa, and a chapel of St. Alexander Nevsky was added later. The church was a five-domed building with a semicircular apse, a refectory, and a tall four-tier bell tower. Tuscan porticoes adorned its walls, and its distinctive silhouette was defined by the slender bell tower with a Gothic spire. Inside the church were the main iconostasis, carved in the Rococo style, and the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, especially revered by the people of Tver. This icon is considered one of the greatest holy treasures of the Russian land. According to tradition, it was painted by the Apostle Luke and later brought to Rus in 1131.