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)

Travel Palace in Tver

Point on route “Literary Pages of Tver”

Point 3

Travel Palace

🏰 Palace • 📜 Historic site • 🏟️ Architectural landmark

Description

The Tver Travel Palace, a majestic historical and architectural ensemble, is rightly considered the jewel of the city. The palace was built on the grounds of the former Tver kremlin, on the site of the house of the former bishops of Tver. The building was erected in 1764–1766 in the Classical style with Baroque elements to a design by P. R. Nikitin. In the early 19th century the palace was rebuilt by K. I. Rossi.

Historical Background

In the early 19th century the palace became the center of Tver's cultural life. At that time it was home to Grand Duchess Ekaterina Pavlovna, sister of Alexander I and wife of the then governor of Tver, Georg of Oldenburg. She turned the palace into a fashionable literary salon. Royalty, statesmen, diplomats, and all of cultured society came to visit, among them N. M. Karamzin, P. Ya. Chaadaev, N. I. Gnedich, F. N. Glinka, I. I. Dmitriev, O. A. Kiprensky, and others. The Russian writer and historian N. M. Karamzin read his “History of the Russian State” to Emperor Alexander I here, as well as his famous memorandum “On Ancient and Modern Russia in Its Political and Civil Relations.”