Literary Pages of Tver

16 points4 km4 hours

Join us for a walk along the embankment and the central streets, and recall how great and forgotten poets, prose writers, and publishers of other centuries saw this beauty: Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Ostrovsky, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and many others. They declared their love for “dear,” “beautiful” Tver and dedicated their finest lines to it.

Route author

Tver Tourist Information Center

Things to do

📚🎬 Recall films and books
📜 Learn the city's history

Route points (16)

Assembly of the Nobility Building in Tver

Point on route “Literary Pages of Tver”

Point 5

Assembly of the Nobility Building

🏟️ Architectural landmark • 📜 Historic site

Historical Background

The Assembly of the Nobility building, built in 1842, is one of the oldest buildings in Tver. The main building was erected for the Tver Society of the Nobility in 1842. The ground floor housed the office of the Assembly of the Nobility and the study of the governorate marshal of the nobility, while concerts, balls, and congresses were held on the second floor. The Assembly of the Nobility survived two world wars. During World War I it housed a rear hospital. In Soviet times it became the Red Army House, and after the war the House of Officers of the Tver garrison. It was on this building, the only one in the city center that had not burned down, that the red flag was raised on December 16, 1941, as a symbol of the city's liberation from the Nazi German invaders.

About the Architecture

The building was designed by the architect Ivan Lvov in the late Classical style. Its facade is symmetrical, with minimal decoration.

The Hall of Columns, a Witness to History

The Hall of Columns of the Tver Assembly of the Nobility witnessed many events. The most important of them for the public life of Tver and all of Russia were the meetings of the Tver nobility during the peasant reform of 1861, when the abolition of serfdom was being decided. In Soviet times the hall saw many memorable gatherings. In the 1920s Anatoly Lunacharsky and Nadezhda Krupskaya gave fiery speeches here, and Sergei Yesenin and Vladimir Mayakovsky read their poems.