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Mikhail Yaroslavich (1271—1318) was a Great Prince of all Russia, Prince of Tver (1282 or 1286– 1318), between 1305 and 1318 he was great prince of Vladimir. He permanently struggled against Novgorod and Prince of Moscow Yury Danilovich. According to an order of Uzbek-Khan, he was killed in Golden Horde, after which the post of the great prince went to Prince of Moscow Yury Danilovich.

Prince Mikhail was born already after the death of his father Yaroslav Yaroslavich. In 1294, Mikhail Yaroslavich married Princess of Rostov Anna Dmitrievna, later glorified by the Orthodox Christian Church as Holy Right-Believing Princess Anna Kashinskaya.

In 1301, he participated in the congress of Russian princes in Dmitrov.

The date of ascension to the throne of the Great Prince of Vladimir is interpreted in various sources either as 1304 or as 1305. This difference appeared because Great Prince of Vladimir Andrei Alexandrovich who died in 1304 left the throne of the Great Prince to Mikhail but Prince of Moscow Yury Danilovich also claimed the throne of the Great Prince. Both Mikhail and Yury went to the khan for a trial. As a result, the khan's certificate was received by Mikhail in 1305 and when he arrived to Vladimir he was put on the throne of the Great Prince by the Metropolitan.

Mikhail Tverskoy was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Christian Church in the congregation of right believing ones in 1549 at the second Makary Convocation in Moscow. Uncovering of the relics of the prince took place in 1632. The memory day is December 5.

The crown shown on the coat of arms of Tver symbolizes Mikhail Yaroslavich, the first head of the state in the Russian history called "autocrat." The flag of Tver carries the image of the coat of arms of the city on one side and the image of Mikhail Yaroslavich and inscription "Mikhail Yaroslavich, patron of the city," on the other side.

The Society of Mikhail Yaroslavich Tverskoy appeared in Tver in 1994.

Mikhail Yaroslavich Tverskoy was the first to start uniting of Russian lands, was the first to receive the title of the Great Prince of all Russia, was the first to defeat Tatar cavalry that had not known defeats before in an open battle. Mikhail Yaroslavich Tverskoy, a talented war chief, far-sighed politician and patriot of his Motherland, played one of the key roles in the history of formation of the Russian statehood without exaggeration. However, not only the state deeds make his figure so important. Mikhail Yaroslavich made a spiritual feat for which it would be very difficult to find counterparts: he sacrificed his own life saving the native land from devastation. Right after his martyr death residents of Tver started honoring the prince as their sky defender and two hundred years later the Russian Orthodox Christian Church officially consecrated him as a saint officially.

The monument to Mikhail Yaroslavich was erected in May of 2008.

The height of the monument is 8.5 meters, the sculptor is A. Kovalchuk.

The year of birth of A. Nikitin is unknown. Information about the reasons that forced this merchant to undertake a risky and long voyage to the East, towards three seas (Caspian, Arabian and Black) at the end of the 1460s was very scarce too. He described this journey in his notes entitled "The Voyage Beyond Three Sees." The precise date of the beginning of the voyage is not known too. In the 19th century I. I. Sreznevsky dated it as 1466–1472, contemporary Russian historians (V. B. Perkhavko, L. S. Semenov) considered the date of 1468–1474 being more accurate. According to their data, a caravan of several ships that united Russian merchants departed from Tver on a voyage along the Volga River in summer of 1468. Experienced merchant Nikitin visited remote countries of Byzantium, Moldavia, Lithuania and Crimea frequently before and returned home with foreign goods. In India he stayed for about three years. On the way back he died. Smolensk is conventionally considered the place of his burial.

Sculptors from Moscow S. M. Orlov and A. P. Zavalov, architect G. A. Zakharov.

The monument was opened on May 31 of 1955. It is under state protection.

Fable writer and playwright I. A. Krylov was born on February 13(2) of 1769 in Moscow in the family of poor army Captain Andrei Prokhorovich Krylov, who was in one of the fortresses in the Urals Region during the Pugachev Riot and manifested himself as a skillful and brave officer. In 1774, A. P. Krylov retired and got settled in Tver. Soon he became chair of the governorate magistrate where he served until his death in 1778. Mother of the writer, Maria Alexeevna, always stayed the dearest person for I. A. Krylov. He said that "she was an ordinary woman without any education but clever by nature and full of high virtues."

Childhood of the future fable writer passed in Tver. This period of life (1774-1782) determined his further fate and creative works to a big extent.

Krylov did not get systematic education but nonetheless he learned to read and write in Tver. The boy re-read the books left by the father as a heritage many times including the collection of Aesop fables that had a strong impression on him. Acquaintance with the Lvov family of rich landlords who patronized him enabled Krylov to study arithmetic and French language and due to a meeting with street musician, Italian signor Luigi, he started understanding the Italian language and learned to play violin.

Krylov had to start service from nine years old: at first, as junior office clerk in the Kalyazin lower country court, afterwards in the Tver magistrate. Experience of work in the governorate magistrate let him watch the life of all classes. There Krylov learned the Russian people's speech that became a source of numerous bright images for him. Some researchers believe that the writer has heard separate proverbs, sayings and colloquialisms in the streets of Tver. Grandmother Matrena Ivanovna Krylova from Tver took an active part in upbringing of the grandson and helped the boy to feel the beauty of the people's speech.

Verses and a fable remade from La Fontaine became the first fiction works of Krylov. Unfortunately, these literature works did not survive until our time. After a visit to show entitled "Miller, sorcerer, deceiver and matchmaker" played in Tver by actors from Moscow the young man decided to try his skills in the genre of comic opera. He started working on "A Coffee Stall Keeper."

The work was completed already in St. Petersburg to which Krylov moved together with his mother and brother in 1782. There he served as a clerk and provincial secretary in the State Chamber, he worked for the Mountain Expedition and worked as personal secretary and teacher of children of General Prince Golitsyn, for more than 30 years he was librarian in the Public Library.

In St. Petersburg Ivan Andreevich communicated with numerous men of letters of his time. A. S. Pushkin called him "a truly people's poet" and representative of the Russian people's spirit.

The writer died on November 9 of 1844. He was buried in the Alexander Nevsky Laura of St. Petersburg. Before death he ordered dissemination of a copy of a new book of fables among all close friends and the title page surrounded by the mourning border said, "Present in commemoration of Ivan Andreevich, at his will."

A street of Kalinin city was named after Krylov in 1944 (former Volnaya Street, formerly Sekretarskaya Street). He lived there for some time. A monument to the writer was erected in the city in 1959.

The poet was born on June 6 in Moscow. His father, Sergei Lvovich, originated from an ancient nobility family. The mother, Nadezhda Osipovna, was a granddaughter of Gannibal, "moor" of Peter the Great. In 1811, Pushkin entered the Tsarskoe Selo lyceum and graduated from it in 1817. The passion for poetry appeared in Alexander very early. The first verse of A. Pushkin was printed in 1814 in Vestnik Evropy magazine. In the lyceum he wrote many lyrical and freedom-loving verses. For freedom-thinking he was exiled to the south in 1820 and in 1824 he was exiled to his family estate Mikhailovskoe. There the poet created "Boris Godunov" drama and wrote many lyrical works. Between 1827 and 1830, A. S. Pushkin lived in Moscow, or in St. Petersburg or in Mikhailovskoe with permission of Czar Nicholas I. The entire further life of the poet passed under secret supervision of gendarmes and czar's court.

In 1831, A. S. Pushkin married N. N. Goncharova. In 1836, the poet founded Sovremennik magazine. The negative attitude of the high society to A. S. Pushkin resulted in his duel with French emigrant d'Anthes that ended with tragic death of the poet. A. S. Pushkin died on January 29 of 1837.

Traveling around Russia, the poet visited Tver Governorate 28 times according to researchers. He visited Torzhok, Gruziny, Pavlovskoe, Kurovo-Pokrovskoe, Staritsa, Vyshny Volochek but he especially liked Malinniki, Pavlovskoe and Bernovo being parts of Staritsa District. A. S. Pushkin visited Tver mostly on the way and stayed in Galyani hotel. In Tver region he wrote many works known now: "Upas tree," "Poet and crowd," "Winter morning," chapters from "Evgeny Onegin," "Dedication to "Poltava Poem" etc. In the article of A. S. Pushkin "Journey from Moscow to St. Petersburg" several chapters are named after cities and villages of Tver region ("Gorodnya," "Tver," "Mednoe" etc) and their content was connected with these places.

The places of the region where the great Russian poet has lived and created his works are united by tourist and literature "Pushkin Ring of the Upper Volga": Tver – Torzhok – Vyshny Volochek - Staritsa - Malinniki, Gruziny – Pavlovskoe – Bernovo – Tver. There are memorial museums of Pushkin in Torzhok and Bernovo. Monuments to the poet are erected in many cities of Tver region and streets and squares of the cities bear the name of the poet.

There are two monuments to the poet in Tver. The first monument was opened in June of 1972 in the Teatralnaya Square during the days of the Pushkin Holiday of Poetry (sculptor E. F. Belashova, architect E. A. Rozenblum with participation of V. A. Frolov and S. A. Semenova). The second monument to the poet was opened in May of 1974 in the Municipal Garden during the days of celebration of the 175th anniversary of his birthday (sculptor O. K. Komov, architects N. I. Komova, V. A. Frolov). Since 1918, a street of Central District of Tver (former Galyanova Street) bears the name of A. S. Pushkin. By the centennial anniversary of the day of the poet's death in 1937 the Square of Kindergartens was renamed into the A. S. Pushkina Square.

Ivan Ivanovich Lazhechnikov was born on September 14 of 1792 in Kolomna of Moscow Governorate. In 1831, Lazhechnikov was appointed director of schools of Tver Governorate. In Tver he wrote his most famous novel "House of Ice." In 1837, Lazhechnikov got settled in a village in Konoplino estate near Staritsa where in 1838 he finished "Basurman" novel mostly written in Tver. There he also wrote verse drama "Oprichnik." V. G. Belinsky and N. V. Stankevich visited Lazhechnikov in Konoplino. Between 1842 and 1854, Lazhechnikov was vice governor in Tver and Vitebsk and between 1856 and 1858 he was censor in the St. Petersburg censorial committee. The latter post was a big burden for him, although his work coincided with the time of softening of the censorship.

He was merchant of the first guild and hereditary honorable citizen, mayor of the city and philanthropist.

He was born in 1810 in St. Petersburg as a bond of Princess A. A. Golitsyna. He was liberated in 1840 and since 1841 he lived in Tver. Since 1839, he was merchant of the second guild, since 1851 he was merchant of the first guild. He had the post of mayor of the city between February of 1858 and July of 1859. He also was a philanthropist. In 1861, "for charity activity, for exemplary zest and responsibility in fulfillment of his duties in various public and municipal organizations merchant of the first guild from Tver A. F. Golovinsky is decorated with order of St. Stanislaw of the third degree." He was elected member of the Tver Governorate Assembly of Tver (1865) and member of the Tver District Assembly (1865). An earth wall was built in 1866 at expense of A. F. Golovinsky to protect the Zatmatskaya part of Tver from annual high water floods that had incurred damage on the city and on its population. According to petition of residents of the Zatmatskaya part, the Tver City Society decided to name the earth wall "the Wall of Golovinsky forever."

Of the 61 years of his life A. F. Golovinsky dedicated 30 years to selfless serving to Tver and its residents after his liberation. His amazing permanent readiness to provide affordable material aid to the needy was manifested in numerous money donations. Being the mayor of the city, he was solving all pressing problems of the city including protection of residents from floods, illumination of the main streets, construction of the first water pipeline with external firefighting wells, bathhouse, schools, organization of a women's gymnasium, public library, museum, the first obstetric institution in Tver and in the governorate with a school for training of maternity nurses, improvement of efficiency of firefighting and many other deeds with energy and insistence inherent to him. (B. N. Rotermel, Alexei Fedorovich Golovinsky. – Tver, 2004)

"Golovinsky Colum" is a historic monument in honor of city mayor of the 19th century A. F. Golovinsky. It represents a granite column with a gilded ball that crowns it. It is located on the coast of the Tmaka River opposite to the Protection of the Virgin Church. The monument was erected on June 28 of 1997 (Monumental Sculpture of the Tver City. – Tver, 2007)

Russian writer and publicist Mikhail Yefgrafovich Saltykov (pseudonym of N. Shchedrin) was born on January 27 (15) of 1826 in Spas-Ugol village of Kalyazin District of Tver Governorate (this is Taldom District of Moscow Region now). Since ten years old, he was brought up in the Moscow Nobility Institute (1836-1838), afterwards in the Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum (1838-1844). In 1848, he was exiled to Vyatka for publication of novels "Contradictions" and "Complicated affair."

Between 1856 and 1858, he served for the Interior Ministry. Between 1858 and 1860, Mikhail Yevgrafovich was vice governor of Ryazan. In 1860, he was appointed vice governor of Tver to which he arrived on June 25 of 1860. In Tver M. Ye. Saltykov-Shchedrin established close relations with representatives of liberal nobility A. M. Unkovsky, A. A. Golovachev, with Decembrist M. I. Muravyev-Apostol. As an administrator (the advocates of serfdom nicknamed him "vice Robespierre) he instituted dozens of criminal cases against criminal landlords and dismissed from service local administrators who got stuck in embezzlements. He actively assisted to carrying out of the reform of 1861. In February of 1862, M. Ye. Saltykov-Shchedrin submitted a resignation report, probably according to an informal proposal of the authorities. Before his departure from Tver to St. Petersburg on March 22 of 1862, he organized a literature evening in favor of officials of the governorate administration in the hall of the Gentlemen's Assembly (now the House of Offices). Among its participants were drama writer A. N. Ostrovsky, poets A. M. Zhemchuzhnikov and A. N. Pleshcheev and actor and author of comic sketches and stories I. F. Gorbunov. In St. Petersburg M. Ye. Saltykov-Shchedrin tried to publish Russkaya Pravda magazine and in 1862 he became a member of the editorial board of Sovremennik magazine. Between 1864 and 1868, he was the head of state chambers in Penza, Tula and Ryazan.

In 1868, he was finally dismissed by a czar's will with a prohibition to have any post in state service. Then he accepted the invitation of N. A. Nekrasov to become a participant of Otechestvennye Zapiski magazine that had to substitute Sovremennik closed in 1866. After the death of N. A. Nekrasov he became the head of the editorial board of the magazine. The impressions from Tver were reflected in "Satires in prose," "History of one city, "He-Pompadours and She-Pompadours" and other works. M. Ye. Saltykov-Shchedrin died on April 28 (in old style) of 1889 in St. Petersburg.

She was a Russian entrepreneur, director of Partnership of Tver Manufacture of Paper Products, one of the most prominent philanthropists and art patrons of Moscow. Varvara Khludova was born in Moscow on November 2 of 1848. She did not get systematic knowledge but due to the family insistence she started working on her education on her own. She was married early to Abram Abramovich Morozov, who was a remote relative to the Khludovs.

After the death of her husband Varvara inherited a textile factory, one of the biggest in Russia. She took Partnership of Tver Manufacture in her hands coming to Tver from Moscow weekly on Thursdays. Broadening of the geography of sales, beneficial purchases of raw materials and cheap labor force brought colossal profits. Morozova had a practical and business mind and understood the commercial affairs well. Pursuing a harsh governance policy, she did not forget about improvement of everyday life conditions of her workers and about charity affairs in the city where the production facility was located. The factory had free of charge: "school of a four-year course intended for up to 1,500 pupils with a class of cutting and handcraft; a hospital for 80 beds with two doctors permanently living there, two male medical assistants and one female medical assistant; a maternity house for 20 beds with one maternity nurse permanently living there; a poor house where 13 elderly workers are living; a cradle house for 85 babies with servants, nurses and supervisor; an orphanage for 35 orphan children."

The money received from the factory enabled Morozova to be a generous patron of arts. Her name was one of the first among the philanthropists who supported the work of the women's courses and scientific laboratories. Among her best known creations were the so called Prechistenskie courses for workers that gradually became an enlightenment center of Moscow proletarians. Up to 1,500 people came to listen to the lectures. V. A. Morozova regularly helped the Tver charity society "Dobrokhotnaya Kopeika" and Tver Nikolskoe sobriety society "Mir."

Varvara Alexeevna died on September 6 of 197 and was buried at the Vagankovskoe cemetery.

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov lived in Tver for 12 years in total between 1906 and 1918. These were years of maturing of the personality of the young talented musician and the time of his active musical enlightenment activity. Although Tver was not his native place, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov left a deep trace and a grateful memory in the musical life of the city.

The famous author of the anthem of the Soviet Union and "Holy War" song started his musical career in Tver as a regent of the Episcopal choir. He successfully passed competition for the announced vacancy and coped with a test task perfectly well outrunning about ten candidates. During a four-hour rehearsal Alexandrov learned several fairly difficult works with the choir, worked on the breathing with the cantors and achieved a concerted choir sound.

Simultaneously, A. V. Alexandrov managed choirs of the real school and men's gymnasium, women's commercial school and country courses, seminary and school of Morovov's weavers. He luckily combined a big musical talent with organizer's skills and the scale of his activity was really huge.

A. V. Alexandrov lived in Tver in a small wooden house approximately on the place where footwear repair works Sapozhok was located later and occupied the second floor there. His apartment consisted of a bedroom, a dining room, a kitchen and a living room where a grand piano stood. Alexander Vasilyevich gathered practically all musicians of the city in his house. Residents of Tver recalled these home meetings for many years because they gave spiritual food to the music fans and created a precious musical aura for the city.

In 1918, Alexander Vasilyevich was offered to move to Moscow to teach in the conservatory and he accepted this offer.

In 1928, he formed the ensemble of song and dance of the Soviet Army from members of the amateur Red Army bands.

Alexandrov headed the ensemble for 18 years until his death. Now the ensemble bears his name.

He was born in Pustomazovo village (it did not survive until now) of Kimry District. He graduated from the Tver men's gymnasium in 1908 and from the Moscow higher technical school in 1918. He started the designing activity in 1922. Between 1937 and 1941, he was repressed but kept working for the design bureaus of NKVD (People's Commissariat of Interior Affairs). More than 100 types of airplanes were developed under supervision of A. N. Tupolev, they set 78 world records and performed 28 unique flights. Among them was the best frontline dive bomber of World War II (1939-1945) Tu-2 that was used for the first time in the Kalininsky Front. In 1953 he became academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, in 1968 he received rank of colonel general – engineer. He received the Lenin Prize in 1957, the state prize in 1943, 1948, 1949, 1952 and 1972. He received title of Hero of Socialist Labor three times (1945, 1957, 1972).

A bust monument of aviation designer A. N. Tupolev (sculptor Kh. B. Gevorkyan) was opened in Kimry in 1979 and the name of Academician Tupolev was given to one of the streets of the city.

A memorial plate was placed on the building where A. N. Tupolev studied (now it is the Tver Medical Academy) in Tver in 1973. A street in Zavolzhsky District (the former Savvatyevskaya Route) was named after him in the same year.

He was a Soviet mathematician and pedagogue. He graduated from the St. Petersburg University (1915), he was professor (since 1934) and doctor of pedagogical sciences (since 1957). Between 1920 and 1959, he worked in the Tver Institute of People's Education (now this is the Tver State University). After retirement in 1959, he supervised postgraduates and between 1965 and 1971 he was professor - consultant.

The main works of Bradis were dedicated to theoretical and methodological working out of issues of improvement of the calculating culture of pupils of the secondary school. His work "Methods of teaching of mathematic in the secondary school" was published many times and was translated into other languages. His "Tables of four-digit logarithms and natural trigonometric values" later published under the name of "Four-digit mathematical tables" were released for the first time in 1921. He was honorable scientist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1957). He received medal named after K. D. Ushinsky.

Vladimir Modestovich Bradis died on May 23 of 1975 at an age of 84. Relatives and acquaintances, fellow-workers, teachers and students of Tver where he lived for 58 years followed him on the way to his grave. He was buried at the Dmitrovo-Cherkasskoe cemetery.

Singer and people's artist of the USSR S. Ya. Lemeshev was born in Staroe Knyazevo village (now it is in Kalinin District). He learned the basics of note literacy and singing in the art and craft Strenevskaya school where he participated in amateur shows and concerts, he played in the theater of N. A. Kvashnin in Maly Khutor near Ivanovskoe village. Between 1918 and 1918, he learned from singer Ye. N. Kvashnina.

Between 1920 and 1921, he learned in the Tver Cavalry School of Commanders of the Workers and Peasants Red Army, from which he was sent to study to the Moscow Conservatory.

Between 1931 and 1965, he was soloist of the Bolshoy Theater of the USSR, he played in movies and acted as concert singer. He sang in the House of Officers and Drama Theater of Tver frequently.

He was a writer, public leader and Hero of Socialist Labor (1974). He was born on March 17 of 1908 in Moscow in a lawyer's family. In 1913, his family moved to Tver. Since 1916, his mother worked as doctor at Proletarka. In Tver B. Polevoy studied in the primary school, school of the second stage and in industrial and economic technical school located in the building of present-day gymnasium No. 6. During the school years he grew interested in journalism, the first article appeared in governorate newspaper Tverskaya Pravda in 1922 when he was pupil of the sixth grade. Since 1924, his articles and reports about life of the city started appearing on pages of newspapers of Tver regularly.

In 1928, B. N. Polevoy quit the job in the laboratory of chintz printing factory Proletarka where he came after graduation from the industrial technical school and dedicated himself to journalist work entirely. In newspapers Tverskaya Pravda, Proletarskaya Pravda and Smena B. Polevoy worked as a journalist between 1928 and 1941.

Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he worked as a military correspondent of Pravda in many fronts including the Kalininsky one and participated in liberation of Kalinin from German fascist invaders. Plots of many works of B. N. Polevoy are connected with Kalinin Region: the first book of sketches "Memoirs of a lousy man" (Tver, 1927); "Hot workshop" (1939), "A story about a real man" (1946), "We are Soviet people" (1948) – State Award of the USSR in 1949; "Gold" (1949, movie bearing the same name in 1970); "Doctor Vera" (1966, movie bearing the same name) etc. The military events that he witnessed were reflected in the sketches later united into a book entitled "From Belgorod to Carpathian Mountains" (1945).

In 1958, Znamya magazine published "Deep home front" novel of B. Polevoy reflecting the events related to restoration of the city of Kalinin after its liberation from occupation. Collections of sketches "American diaries" (1956; International Peace Prize - 1959), "Around the world" (1958), "30,000 li around China" (1957) etc are dedicated to trips abroad. Many works of B. N. Polevoy were translated into foreign languages.

Between 1962 and 1981, B. N. Polevoy was editor-in-chief of Yunost magazine and since 1967 he was secretary of the executive board of the Union of Writers of the USSR; member of the bureau of the World Peace Council and presidium of the Soviet committee for protection of peace; vice president of the European Society of Culture (since 1952). He was decorated with two orders of Lenin, order of the October Revolution and six other orders, Golden Medal of Peace (1968), foreign orders and medals. In 1974, B. N. Polevoy was given title of Hero of Socialist Labor.

On March 16 of 1978, B. N. Polevoy was given title of "Honorable citizen of Kalinin city" "For creation of works that truthfully reflect heroic and labor feats of residents of Kalinin during the Great Patriotic War years and peaceful labor, big contribution to development of the city and because of the 70th jubilee."

B. Polevoy died in 1981 in Moscow.

A street in Tver (former Kooperativnaya) where he lived in house No. 12 was named after B. N. Polevoy in 1983.

A memorial plate was placed on house No. 12 in the B. Polevogo Street on December 16 of 2006.

She was born on January 1 of 1909 in the 47th barracks of the Morozov manufacture of Tver.

At 12 years old Tatiana already organized concerts in workers' barracks. She invented – with assistance of the mother at first – new dances, together with girls and boys she learned them and demonstrated them to textile workers of Proletarka (people started calling the settlement of textile workers in such way after 1917). At 14 years old Tatiana joined the Young Communist League (Komsomol) and according to a directive of the Komsomol organization she formed a pioneer detachment of girls. Thus, in 1923 she became the first leader of pioneers of Proletarka factory.

Very soon Tatiana got to know that a ballet studio started working in the city. Anna Dmitrievna Karenina was its pedagogue and organizer. The pedagogue liked the girl and accepted Tanya for studying gladly. Some time later, Anna Dmitrievna started using the knowledge of Russian dancing of Ustinova in her concerts.

The Komsomol organization of Tver sent Ustinova to Moscow in 1928 and the Komsomol organization of Moscow helped her to get enlisted to evening courses of the Bolshoy Theater. Afterwards, she was moved to the ballet technical school of the Bolshoy Theater (the choreographic school bore this name in those years).

In 1931, Tatiana Alexeevna graduated from the technical school and received an invitation to work in the central youth theater of Moscow as a ballet actor and head of the choreographic section. On stage of this theater she played as a drama actress. In 1938, heads of the Russian people's choir named after M. E. Pyatnitsky, prominent musicians Petr Mikhailovich Kazmin and Vladimir Grigoryevich Zakharov, decided to organize a dance group. Someone had to record, study, stage and create dances on the basis of folk dancing. They chose Tatiana Alexeevna Ustinova. Since then, the entire life of the actress has been inseparably connected with the famous creative group.

Tatiana Alexeevna started her star way from staging of "Kalinin quadrille" dance that was performed in January of 1939 in Moscow. Every new dance was made with difficulty. It was necessary to travel a lot, to collect folklore, to study people, their environment, everyday life and traditions.

The entire creative way of T. A. Ustinova is connected with amateur choreographic bands of Tver and Tver Region. Living in Moscow, Tatiana Alexeevna visited Tver often. Members of Lenok choir from Torzhok, Medok ensemble of song and dance from Vyshny Volochek and Tverichane people's ensemble from Tver recall her aid and advice with gratitude.

She was People's Actress of the USSR (1961), winner of state awards of the USSR (1949, 1952), state award of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic named after F. M. Glinka (1971), professor of choreography, chief ballet mistress of the academic Russian people's choir named after Pyatnitsky (1938), Honorable Citizen of Tver (1998). Tatiana Alexeevna Ustinova was author of many articles and books dedicated to Russian choreography. Her work entitled "Folklore dances of Tver Land" was published in 2020. Materials for the book were collected back in 1938. This was the seventh textbook written by the prominent choreographer and patriot of Tver Land.

T. A. Ustinova died on September 23 of 1999. She was buried at the Vagankovskoe Cemetery in Moscow.

He was born on December 9 of 1924 in Verkhnyaya Kamyshinka village of Altai Territory in a peasant family. He participated in the Great Patriotic War.

In 1953, he entered the second Moscow State Medical Institute named after I. V. Stalin. In 1956, Vasily Makarovich graduated from the institute. He was offered to stay in the institute at the chair of eye diseases but he went to the district hospital of Vasilyevsky Mokh settlement of Kalinin Region according to distribution order. He worked there as a surgeon for three years. The fame of the young surgeon spread around the districts of the region quickly. People started coming to him bypassing the regional hospital. V. M. Chasovskikh earned reputation of a well-trained doctor with deep clinic thinking. His brilliant surgeon skills were manifested there for the first time.

In 1959, Vasily Makarovich was invited to work as surgeon to the surgical department of the seventh municipal hospital of Kalinin and in September of 1960 he was moved to the regional clinical hospital of Kalinin.

Vasily Makarovich successfully combined work in the regional hospital with work of the onboard surgeon providing comprehensive surgical aid in districts of the region. Since 1974, Chasovskikh worked as head of the gastroenterological surgical department of the regional hospital.

He had the title of excellent doctor (1970), surgeon of the highest qualification category (1970), Honorable Doctor of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1978), People's Doctor of the USSR (1985), Honorable Citizen of Kalinin (1987). Vasily Makarovich Chasovskikh was a symbol of an entire surgical epoch. For 30 years he was the head of the surgical department of the Tver regional clinical hospital, one of the strongest in Russia. He shared his rich experience of a surgeon with young colleagues willingly. An entire generation of young surgeons working both in the regional clinical hospital of Tver and in hospitals of districts of Tver Region was raised in the regional hospital with his participation.

V. M. Chasovskikh took an active part in organization and work of the regional division of the scientific society of surgeons. He printed his works in medical journals. He was an author of about 20 scientific works that summed up results of surgical treatment of many diseases, he was a delegate of the all-union congress of doctors (1988). He was decorated with honorable sign Cross of St. Mikhail Tverskoy (1999).

Vasily Makarovich Chasovskikh died on January 25 of 2004.

He was born on July 16 of 1928 in Tver. Many years of life of the poet are connected with Tver Land and City of Tver. There he was born, graduated from a secondary school and studied in the Kalinin Pedagogical Institute. After completion of literature education in Moscow, in Literature Institute named after A. M. Gorky (1949–1952), Andrei Dementyev returned to his native city and worked in the editorial boards of regional newspapers Kalininskaya Pravda (1953–1955), Smena (1955–1958), afterwards he worked on radio, he was editor-in-chief of the regional book publishing house (1958–1961). The first verses of Andrei Dementyev were published in December of 1948 in "Native land" almanac of Kalinin and in the regional newspaper. There he became the first winner of the award named after Liza Chaikina. Love for the native land was expressed in many works of the poet such as the songs "Father's home," "I simply cannot live without Volga" and "Alenushka" known to the whole country.

Andrei Dmitrievich is an author of more than 40 poetic collections. According to popularity among the readers, his poetry has the first place among the 20 best books according to data of Russian books stores. Verses of the poet were translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hindi and other languages. Books of A. D. Dementyev were published in Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Bulgaria and other countries.

More than 100 songs were written for verses of Andrei Dementyev. Such songs as "Swan fidelity, "Father's home," "Alenushka," "Apples on snow," "Ballad about mother," "Stuntmen," "Natalie," "Confession" were included into the classic of contemporary Russian show business. Since 1974, all these songs permanently became winners of television contests in Russia and abroad. Co-authors of A. D. Dementyev are well-known music composers R. Pauls, A. Babadzhanyan, Ye. Martynov, Ye. Doga, N. Bogoslovsky, V. Migulya, P. Aedonitsky, A. Khoralov, A. Kovalevsky.

Andrei Dementyev dedicated 21 years of his life to Yunost magazine (1972–1993). Between 1972 and 1981, he was senior deputy editor-in-chief and in the next 12 years he was editor-in-chief of this popular literature and fiction magazine. During his office circulation of the magazine reached an unprecedented figure of 3.3 million copies.

For many years Andrei Dementyev was closely connected with television. Since the end of the 1980s, he was anchormen of programs "Dobry Vecher, Moskva," "Klub molodozhenov," "Bravo," "Semeiny Kanal" and "Voskresnye Vstrechi."

Between 1997 and 2001, he worked in Israel as head of the bureau of the Russian television in the Middle East. During this time he together with the colleagues created three television films dedicated to Israel and Holy Land.

Andrei Dementyev takes an active part in popular television programs, talk shows, acts as host on radio and television. Since March of 2001, A. D. Dementyev has been political observer of Radio of Russia, anchorman of weekly author program "Virazhi Vremeni" that is justly considered one of the programs of the radio station with the highest rating. In 2005, A. D. Dementyev received Grand Prix of all-Russian festival Inspiration for this program. Originality and success of "Virazhi Vremeni" is conditioned by that fact that this is not a monologue of heroes but a conversation of equal interlocutors.

For a few years A. D. Dementyev was chair of the state examination commission in the Literature Institute. He participated in all big poetic seminars and in the all-Union consultation of young writers as the head. Between 1981 and 1991, A. D. Dementyev was secretary of the executive board of the Union of Writers of the USSR. At present, he is co-chair of the Community of Unions of Writers and chair of the public and editorial council of Literaturnaya Gazeta.

For more than 40 years A. D. Dementyev has taken an active part in work of the public organizations of Moscow and Russia activity of which is dedicated to peacekeeping and charity, strengthening of friendship and cooperation among the nations, achievement of consent in the society, bringing up of respect to domestic history. He stood at the cradle of establishment of the Soviet Peace Fund. In 1990, A. D. Dementyev was elected deputy chair of the executive board of the Russian Peace Fund, currently reorganized into international public fund Russian Peace Fund. International Olympics of foreign schoolchildren who study the Russian language are organized in Moscow with direct participation of Andrei Dmitrievich and hundreds of pupils from dozens of countries take part in each of them.

A. D. Dementyev takes part in development of charity programs of the Russian Peace Fund. Andrei Dementyev was decorated with honorable title of Honorable Man of Arts of the Russian Federation. For book of lyrics "Passion" he received State Award of the USSR in 1985. Earlier, in 1981, the poet received the award of the Lenin Young Communist League for selected works.

For big contribution to propaganda of works of M. Yu. Lermontov and for new book of verses "On the edge of my fate" the poet received all-Russian literature award named after M. Yu. Lermontov for 2003. In 2005, he received literature award named after Alexander Nevsky "Devoted sons of Russia."

A. D. Dementyev was decorated with orders "For merits to the Fatherland" of the fourth degree (1998), order of Lenin (1988), order of October Revolution (1984), order of the Red Banner of Labor (1984), Sign of Honor (1970), silver medal of the All-Union Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR, honorable sign of the Governor of Tver Region Cross of St. Mikhail Tverskoy. Andrei Dementyev is an honorable citizen of Tver.

For active participation in peacekeeping and charity activity A. D. Dementyev was given memorable sign of the Russian Peace Fund Symbol of Peace in 1998.

He lives and works in Moscow.