Torzhok actually is an original Russian city, especially since he is in the Tver region. It was founded in the tenth century with noble traders and must be said that their descendants still consider themselves innovators, because the very first name of the city was the phrase of a new bargaining. Torzhok is located on the way from Moscow to St. Petersburg and vice versa, and is approximately in the middle, so there were quite well-known personal personalities in it, for example, such as Catherine II, the Great Russian Poet Pushkin and many others.
When only arriving in Torzhok, it seems that time there as if it stopped and the city remained in the distant and forgotten nineteenth century. Thanks to the huge number of monasteries and churches, as well as practically lost crafts of Master-Zlatoshwek, the city is so similar to most of its modern cities around him. It is good that Torzhok in the general is a very small town, and it is easy to get around in one day.
The Trading Center is an incredibly valuable place in terms of history and architecture, since it can see a huge number of small old houses, most of which have already managed to visit the restorers. Special attention in the center immediately needs to turn to the Novotorzhsky Kremlin.
In its territory, in the twelfth century there was a defensive fortress, from which old gross fortifications were preserved to this day. Today, the Kremlin is an exposition interactive center in which everyone has the opportunity to thoroughly explore this most important historical object. Right under the open sky, you can see such exhibits as - handicraft hood, ristar, triography, tire, gazebos, model of the Mikhail Tower of the seventeenth century, hollow with weapons exhibits and birds with domestic birds.
Also in the center of the trading there is a very unusual museum called "House of the belt", which he received due to the fact that it is in him the largest worldwide belt with the inscription-prayer "Live in the help of Vysnyago". In general, his length is equal to twelve meters, and the width is twenty five centimeters. It should be noted that it is made in all Christian canons of Orthodox culture by local craftswomen. And he, by the way, is registered in the Russian Book of Records Guinness. So come inside the museum, make a desire near the belt or ask him about something.
The All-Russian Historical and Ethnographic Museum operates in Torzhok since 1989. Here you can see very interesting expositions, talking about the development of both the city itself and nearby settlements, to get acquainted with the results of archaeological research and see many of all sorts of different historical values.
This city also has a very unusual helicopter museum, which is created on the basis of the training center. Here they improve their qualifications of pilots of combat helicopters. The museum contains almost all the well-known models, and from the smallest to almost giant. The same famous "black shark" is also located. In addition to the actual helicopters themselves in the museum you can also look at their spare parts and for different types of weapons.
To get to the exhibition hall of the Tsokoksky Zlatoshwei factory, I think it will be interesting to everyone. Here are the best works of skillful craftsmen who have embroidered with gold threads. Here you will be offered not only to look at the unique samples of this art, preserved for a long time, but, if you wish to buy some small souvenir for memory.
In Torzhok, it is necessary to visit such a uniquely beautiful place as a solid embankment. Here, in full its beauty, a wonderfully renovated two-three-story mansions of the eighteenth century were preserved, even modern signs and inscriptions at stores are stylized under the long-standing times. The embankment is very beautifully decorated with a lace of a cast-iron parapet and round lamps. And during the very last restoration, the embankment even laid out a parallery under ancient.
From religious institutions in Torzhok, the Borisoglebsky Monastery, Old Assesskaya (Tikhvinskaya) Church, Ilyinskaya Church, then Savior of the Nerukotye Image and Savior-Preobrazhensky Cathedral are present in the greatest interest. Well, in the vicinity of the trading it is worth visiting the abandoned estate of Poltoratsky, the architectural and ethnographic museum "Vasileo" with the "damn bridge" located on it, the estate "Znamensky-Rajak" and a pretty waterfall near the panic village.