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)

Gymnasium No. 6 in Tver

Point on route “A Walk Along Millionnaya”

Point 16

Gymnasium No. 6

📜 Learn the city's history

Historical Background

Tver Gymnasium No. 6 is the oldest educational institution in the city of Tver. From 1905 its building was home to the Tver City Commercial School for Girls, built to a design by the architect A. P. Fyodorov in the historic part of Tver as part of the architectural ensemble of Cathedral Square. The subjects taught to the girls included bookkeeping, political economy, law, and commercial correspondence in Russian and foreign languages. Much attention was paid to the students' spiritual upbringing. Once, at the invitation of the school's director, Nikolai Rose, the State Academic Maly Theater of Russia gave a performance on the school's stage, showing Alexander Ostrovsky's play “Without a Dowry.”

Fun Facts

After the revolution the building housed a school whose students included Hero of the Soviet Union Vyacheslav Efimov, in whose honor a memorial plaque has been installed at the gymnasium. Others who studied here were the writer Boris Polevoy, a Russian prose writer, screenwriter, journalist, and war correspondent, author of the famous works “The Story of a Real Man” and “Doctor Vera” (during the war the school was turned into a hospital where Dr. Lidia Petrovna Tikhomirova worked; she later became the prototype for Doctor Vera in Polevoy's well-known novella); the poet Andrei Dementyev, author of the famous poems turned songs “Swan Fidelity,” “Father's House,” and “Ballad of a Mother” and of the lyrics of the Tver city anthem; the academician Stanislav Shatalin; and the actor Vladimir Zeldin. Such are the fascinating ways in which those who studied and worked in this school building are connected.