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Torzhok (Russian: Торжо́к) is a town in Tver Oblast, Russia, located on the Tvertsa River along the federal highway M10 and a branch of the Oktyabrskaya Railway division of the Russian Railways. The town is famous for its folk craft of goldwork embroidery.
Between 1903 and 1916 he traveled through the Russian Empire and took over 2,000 photographs with the process, which involved three exposures on a glass plate.
Torzhok, city, Tver oblast (region), western Russia, on the Tvertsa River, 37 miles (60 km) west of Tver. The first recorded mention of Torzhok dates from 1139. In the 14th century it became the centre of a small rural district in the Novgorod Feudal Republic, on the trade route between Novgorod.
Like other provincial towns, Torzhok was essentially rebuilt in the late 18th century, when Catherine the Great undertook to transform Russian provincial life by bringing order into its city...
In 1941, Torzhok was on the front line of the German invasion of Russia. The log Church of the Ascension, built in 1717, astonishingly survived, and its soaring octagonal tower is a remarkable example of wooden church architecture. Log Church of the Ascension, interior of tower with 19th-century wall paintings.
Torzhok: The Russian capital of gold embroidery. Peggy Lohse. An expensive pleasure. Hundreds of years ago, the Mongols and Tatars brought gold threads from the Central Asian steppes to the...
Alexej von Jawlensky was born in Torzhok, a town in Tver Governorate, Russia, as the fifth child of Georgi von Jawlensky and his wife Alexandra (née Medwedewa). At the age of ten he moved with his family to Moscow.
