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)

A. S. Pushkin Memorial Bust in Tver

Point on route “Literary Pages of Tver”

Point 6

A. S. Pushkin Memorial Bust

🗿 Monument

About the Sculpture

The bust was unveiled on May 6, 1972. A monument to the poet by Ekaterina Belashova now also stands in Pushkinskiye Gory, near the poet's grave. It is said that Ekaterina Fyodorovna wanted the monument that now graces Tver to stand on the Chernaya Rechka (Black River), at the site of Pushkin's duel.

Architectural Features

Ekaterina Belashova portrayed Pushkin in the last days of his life: a somber, tense face. The poet's hair, streaming in the wind, merges into a laurel wreath in the background.

Fun Facts

On May 1, 1836, Pushkin came to Tver to fight a duel with Count Vladimir Sollogub. Fortunately, he did not find him in Tver, and the duel never took place. Soon afterward Pushkin visited our city for the last time in his life. He stayed at the Galiani Hotel, crossed the Volga the next morning near the Church of the Three Confessors, and cast a farewell glance at Tver from the St. Petersburg Gate.