in 1305, prince mikhail yaroslavich of tver was elevated to the throne of the great reign, becoming the grand dukel russia. however, having received such a high post, he did not leave his beloved tver, for which grateful descendants immortalized him in one of the city squares. for centuries tver was called little petersburg, in its architecture you can really find a lot of similarities about the structure, this is not surprising, because the terrible fire of 1763 left nothing of the medieval wooden city, then tver, from this ashes, as they would say today, pulled out your lucky ticket. immediately after the fire, catherine ii began here a unique experiment to create an ideal city from tver. on the site of a burnt medieval settlement, they began to rebuild a city, which in the 16th century was called regular, that is , rationally organized, convenient for living and beautiful. catherine called this hobby, the creation of an ideal city from tver, her toy, and a very expensive toy, they say that about a million was spent. oh, at that time, this was an unthinkable amount, maybe because of this, the ma