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• Walking tour of Tver with a visit to the Museum of Tver Everyday Life
  Since its foundation, the city of Tver has played an important political, commercial, craft, and cultural role in the history of the Russian state. The convenient geographical location provided excellent opportunities for the development of various crafts and rich merchant life both in the Middle Ages and in more Modern times.
  
  You can get acquainted with the history, traditional activities and achievements of this city on a sightseeing tour with a visit to the Museum of Tver Everyday Life.
  
  During the tour, you will find:
  
  • The history of the foundation of the first monastery in the city and the legends associated with this place.
  • The River Station building is an outstanding object of Soviet constructivism.
  • Excursion to the Museum of Tver everyday life – acquaintance with crafts, crafts and traditions of the Tver region.
  • A trip to India by the famous Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin.
  • Secrets of the Volga River and its bridges.
  • The Imperial Traveling Palace of Catherine the Great (without visiting).
  • A walk through the city garden, a favorite vacation spot for Tver residents, picturesque alleys, and a monument to Alexander Pushkin. The story of the great poet's travels along the Tsar's Road.
  • The Golden Age of Tver – architectural ensembles of the second half of the 18th century: streets, squares, buildings.
  • A walk along Trekhsvyatskaya pedestrian street (Tverskoy Arbat), Tverskoy Gift store: purchase of Tver goods and souvenirs (marmalade, gingerbread, gold embroidery, wooden toys, Afanasy beer, tinctures and balms "Veresk", etc.).
  The tour is included in the price.
  
• Walking tour of Tver with a visit to the exhibition "Ancient Tver. History underfoot" at the Museum of Local Lore"
  Walking tour of Tver with a visit to the exhibition on the archeology of Tver in the Museum of Local lore.
  
  To visit an exhibition dedicated to the archaeology of an ancient, rich trading city means to see authentic objects of the past with your own eyes. They were carefully collected during the excavations by scientists and presented to us. These objects, as silent witnesses, will tell about the first settlements on the territory of modern Tver, about how the ancient city arose and how its appearance changed.
  
  Authentic items will highlight the majestic history of the spiritual heart of the city, its main shrine, the Transfiguration Cathedral, and show how much Tver has changed after the devastating fire of 1763. The history of the city will be shown through the occupations of its inhabitants, the urban elite (princes, squads, clergy) and the rural people (townspeople). The exhibition will feature archaeological finds from excavations conducted in Tver, city plans, etc.
  
  You can find out how the ancient city lives today on a walking sightseeing tour of the city.
  
  During the tour, you will find:
  
  • Sightseeing tour of Tver.
  • Afanasy Nikitin Embankment and the secrets of the Volga River and its bridges.
  • External inspection of the Transfiguration Cathedral and the Tver Imperial Palace, built for Catherine the Great.
  • A walk through the city garden is a favorite vacation spot for Tver residents, the place where the wall of the Tver Kremlin once passed.
  • Guided tour of the exhibition "Ancient Tver. History underfoot" (archeology of the ancient city).
  • Coins of the Tver Principality, jewelry, pieces of leather shoes of the townspeople, medieval ceramics, Tver castles with secrets, household items of the townspeople of medieval Tver – coins, chess and much more.
  • The Golden Age of Tver – architectural ensembles of the second half of the 18th century: streets, squares, buildings.
  The tour is included in the price.
  
• "Walking tour of Tver with an outside view of the Imperial Palace and a master class on Tver embroidery"
  During the tour, you will find:
  
  Tver – the House of the Holy Savior is the tragic story of the Transfiguration Cathedral and the story of the rebirth of the main spiritual center of the Tver land. Historical and architectural pearl of Tver - The Imperial Palace (outside view): you will see the architectural ensemble of the palace and hear the story of the celebrities who had a hand in its creation or spent some time in it. The history of the River station on the site of the Assumption Monastery for men. You will find yourself at the place where the famous expression "Filkin's letter" originated. The embankment of Stepan Razin is an untouched corner of Tver at the end of the XVIII century. On it you will see that Tver is a small town – a corner of St. Petersburg. The monument to Afanasy Nikitin will allow you to recall the era of Great Geographical Discoveries and the Tver merchant who found himself as a result of "walking across three seas" in India a quarter of a century before Vasco da Gama.
  
  You will find out why the New Bridge is older than the Old Bridge.
  
  The City Garden is an area that in ancient times was occupied by the Kremlin and the adjacent Red Square.
  
  Master class on Tver stuffing: decorating a shopping bag in the technique of horse stuffing. Tourists will hear a story about the ancient traditional Tver craft of horse–riding; how the craftsmen worked, what they decorated, and how they did it in the past and present. Everyone will come up with and print their own composition or ornament on a fabric shopping bag and take it with them as a souvenir from Tver.
  The tour is included in the price.
  

The last meal service is lunch.