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)

I. A. Krylov Monument in Tver

Point on route “Literary Pages of Tver”

Point 1

I. A. Krylov Monument

🗿 Monument

About the Sculpture

The monument to I. A. Krylov was unveiled in 1959. Its authors are the sculptors S. D. Shaposhnikov and D. V. Gorlov and the architect N. V. Donskikh. At the center of the composition is the figure of the writer standing on a tall pedestal. The sculpture captures the fabulist's likeness and character. Around the monument stand 4 stelae, each bearing 2 high reliefs* with characters from Krylov's fables: “The Wolf and the Lamb,” “The Pig Under the Oak,” “The Cuckoo and the Rooster,” and “The Crow and the Fox.” *A high relief is a sculptural image on a flat surface in which the figures project strongly from the background.

Historical Background

I. A. Krylov lived in Tver as a child, from 1774 to 1783. He began serving in the Tver Governorate Magistracy (today the Tver Young Spectators' Theater) as a sub-clerk (a messenger) for an extremely meager salary.

Facts

The decision to create a monument to the great writer was made in 1944 to mark the 100th anniversary of I. A. Krylov's death. A competition was announced for the design. It was won by the sculptors Sergei Shaposhnikov (the portrait statue) and Dmitry Gorlov (the monumental reliefs). Work on the project lasted 12 years. Three architects worked with the winners in turn, and only N. V. Donskikh saw the long years of work through to the end.