Kalininsky District offers different ways to explore culture and landscape: Emmaus is home to a museum of military history and a museum dedicated to V. A. Serov, while Staroye Knyazevo commemorates singer Sergei Lemeshev. Other places of interest include a church with a distinctive architectural history, the Mednoye Memorial Complex and Akulkina Roshcha. If you are looking for a holiday rental in the district, these themes can help you choose the focus of your trip, from art and music history to remembrance and nature.
Museums offering different perspectives
The Kalinin Front Museum in Emmaus is devoted to eleven major military operations, including the Kalinin Defensive Operation and the Kalinin Offensive Operation. In the same town, the V. A. Serov Memorial Art Museum offers a different perspective. Its collection includes personal belongings, rare photographs and documents, as well as original paintings by Serov. The juxtaposition of biographical records and works of art gives the museum a distinctive focus alongside the military history exhibition.
The V. A. Serov House Museum in Domotkanovo tells the story of the estate, its owners and guests, and the cultural life there in four rooms. A separate section covers Serov’s time at the estate and the works he created there. This brings not only the artist into focus, but also the estate’s cultural context.
In Staroye Knyazevo, the museum commemorates Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev (1902–1977), a People’s Artist of the USSR and soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre. It was founded on 12 July 1986 in his home village, at the initiative of the singer and music historian V. D. Vasilyev. Since 1990, it has been housed in a reconstructed building on the old foundations of the parish school where Lemeshev studied from 1911 to 1914. The museum’s history and his school years come together in one place.
Architecture and remembrance
The Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God in Turginovo was built between 1824 and 1835 with funding from I. N. Nepluyev, and expanded between 1876 and 1887. It is a four-pillar, five-domed church in the Classical style, with elements of the Russian Revival style and a multi-tiered bell tower topped with a spire. The two periods mark its original construction and later expansion.
The Mednoye Memorial Complex commemorates Soviet citizens who fell victim to political repression from the 1930s to the 1950s, as well as Polish prisoners of war shot after being held at the NKVD of the USSR’s Ostashkov camp. Within the complex, the Museum and Information Centre presents an exhibition about events of the mid-20th century. It recounts the life stories of residents of Kalinin Oblast who suffered repression and were later rehabilitated.
Forest and river at Akulkina Roshcha
The Akulkina Roshcha protected area lies east of the village of Brednevo. The pine forest that gives the area its name is on the right bank of the Vyazma, where the river flows into the Shosha. Alongside the museums and historic sites, visitors can explore a specific forest landscape in a precisely identified river setting.
Nature experiences in Tver Oblast
In Tver Oblast, the Central Forest Reserve offers guided excursions along the ecological trails “Secrets of the Okovsky Forest” and “Forest ABC.” An excursion to the Staroselsky Bog is also available; visitors are expected to use their own vehicle. The ecological nature trail through the bog crosses open areas completely covered in moss and home to unusual plants. This landscape offers a different nature experience from the pine forest at the confluence of the Vyazma and Shosha.
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