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)

Tver Commercial School for Girls in Tver

Point on route “Literary Pages of Tver”

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Tver Commercial School for Girls

🏟️ Architectural landmark • 📜 Historic site

Historical Background

Tver Gymnasium No. 6 is the oldest educational institution in the city. In 1905 its building became home to the Tver City Eight-Year Commercial School for Girls. The girls were taught bookkeeping, political economy, law, and other subjects. Much attention was paid to their spiritual upbringing. Once, at the invitation of the director, Nikolai Rose, the State Academic Maly Theater of Russia performed Alexander Ostrovsky's play “Without a Dowry” on the school's stage.

Famous Students

From 1917 to 1924 Boris Polevoy (real surname Kampov), a Russian prose writer, screenwriter, journalist, and war correspondent, studied here. In 1922, at the age of 13, Boris was first published in the newspaper Tverskaya Pravda. From 1936 to 1946 Andrei Dementyev, a Soviet and Russian poet, studied within the walls of the same school. In 1946 he wrote the poem “To a Student.” It was first published in the newspaper Proletarskaya Pravda (now Tverskaya Zhizn) on September 5, 1948.