A well-known connoisseur of good cuisine Alexander Pushkin recommended his friend Sobolevsky to try Torzhok fried cutlets in the Pozharsky hotel. So the famous Russian poet in one phrase, two local attractions immortalized: both the hotel and the cutlets.
Pozharsky in Torzhok,
Fried cutlets (just cutlet)
Do you know the names of Torzhok residents? No, not Torzhane, not traders and not even torzhane - novotory. The fact is that at one time this city was called the New Torg. Residents decided to leave the legacy of time immemorial and not to take a new name.
And one more important esoteric fact from the history of Torzhok: in its history a big role is played by the number 6. Six pigeons are depicted on the coat of arms of the city, out of six gates there were roads in different directions, six years old was once almost all Torzhok residents
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How to get here
This city is located on the "sovereign road", leading from Moscow to St. Petersburg. The very one on which the writer Radishchev traveled, for which all Russian schoolchildren are grateful. Torzhok is located 230 kilometers from Moscow. Nearby is laid federal highway "Russia", a little bit later, they threw a branch of the railway. So you can get to Torzhok without problems. For example, on your car you can go for 3-4 hours - in the morning they left, in the evening they returned.
True, the residents of the region agree that in Russia there are worse roads than in Torzhok, there is no such thing. The carriageway of the city is similar to a firing range, the asphalt is torn by shreds. All this is supplemented by a unique traffic scheme, which strikes with its unpredictability.
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Transport
There are more than enough buses and minibuses in the city. The journey costs about 10 rubles. For a small Torzhok, maybe a little too high price. For example, the same fare in a million Krasnodar.
A trip with a breeze by taxi will cost 100-150 rubles. Once a day from Torzhok to Moscow you can go on an electric train-express train. In both directions tourists go: one to look at the Belokamennaya, others to wander through the picturesque places that when A. Pushkin benefited. But about this later.
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Cuisine and restaurants
What to consider in Torzhok as a restaurant? Guides are confused in the testimony: some rank the cafes as restaurants, others conduct their own unique selection, and in the end it turns out that there are no restaurants in Torzhok. Local residents believe that there are two restaurants in the city, but one of them has hot water.
Local cafes do not indulge in a variety of food - basically fast food, pancakes, salads, pizza, etc. The same brand the dish of the city - fire cutlets - you can try at the restaurant "Tvertsa."
A portion of the cutlet is usually brought to the end of this long history
Torzhok Hotels
Torzhok is, of course, not a hotel paradise, but here you can find a good hotel for an acceptable amount. If you are lucky - stop in some ancient building. True, hotels do not offer an "antique" interior, modern trends are in fashion here.
You can stop for a couple of nights at a hotel of level 2-3 "stars". When choosing carefully, ask the administrator about the necessary conditions. For example, is the bathroom good and how many people actually live in the room.
Cost of living in Torzhok - from 1500 rubles for a double room. There are hotels and cheaper, but this is for fans of extreme sports and fans of the PCB.
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Stores
Alexander Sergeevich at the time mentioned not only firefish cutlets, but also another Torzhok attraction - gold embroidery. This brand is almost 900 years old. Gold embroidery can be easily found in local stores. You will be offered various magnets, mobile covers, decorations, state emblems, bags. The average price is from 100-200 rubles. There are very expensive copies, under $ 3 thousand.
- Buy Torzhok gold sewing - let it be the most insignificant souvenir, but you and your friends personally see how beautiful it is.
- Wander around Pushkin's places - Pushkin in Torzhok is honored for his. Whether a joke, thanks to a signboard "Eugene Onegin - bakeries and tailor's affairs of the master" Alexander Sergeevich has thought up a name to the hero of the novel. In any case, so says the legend. In the city there is even a symbolic grave of Anna Petrovna Kern, near which lie real flowers.
- To try the balsam and liqueur of the Kashinsky Liquor Factory "Veresk" is an alcoholic attraction Torzhok. Such wines and tinctures you will not find anywhere else. They say that queues are being built behind them. Deficiency!
Entertainment, excursions and attractions Torzhok
Torzhok is literally strewn with architectural monuments, many of which date back to the 17-19th centuries
Churches
Where can I go to a tourist who first came to Torzhok . The wooden church of the Ascension, the complex of the Borisoglebsky monastery with the cathedral, the bell tower and churches, the Resurrection Monastery, the Transfiguration Cathedral, the Ilyinsky Church, the Church of St. George the Victorious make a great impression on the guests.
Manors
Not far from Torzhok there are manors of people who made contribution to the development of. Each of them had his own vision of what the country should be like. For example, in the neighborhood of the landowners' estates there is the Bakunin estate - there was a well-known revolutionary and anarchist Mikhail Bakunin.
Museums
There are few museums in small towns - some local history, art, and everything. In Torzhok with a dozen different museums - from the famous Pushkin Museum to the wooden architecture in the open. In the city you can visit the museum of helicopters, dolls, Russian way of life, go to the gold sewing factory and walk along the "Devil's" bridge.
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A. Pushkin Museum
More than 20 times Pushkin visited Torzhok. It is not surprising that a museum dedicated to the Russian poet was opened in this city. For a long time Alexander Sergeevich did not stay here - he waited until they changed horses, ate cutlets, wrote verses in parallel. Surely one of the local residents defended a thesis about the influence of Torzhok on Pushkin's work
The local museum is rather a presentation of the poet about Russia. His meetings with different people, various things he took on the road, portraits, icons, drawings, etc.
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