Ostashkov

Ostashkov is a metropolis and the workplace of Ostashkovsky District in Tver Oblast, Russia, on a peninsula on the southern shore of Lake Seliger, 199 kilometers west of Tver, the workplace of the oblast. The island of Klichen turned into first referred to in a letter sent by using Grand Duke Algirdas of Lithuania to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1371. After the island was pillaged by Novgorod pirates several years later, of Klichen's surviving inhabitants, Ostashko and Timofey, moved to the mainland, in which they founded the villages Ostashkovo and Timofeyevo, respectively.

The former belonged to the Moscow Patriarchs, and the latter—to the Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery. In 1770, each villages have been merged into the city of Ostashkov. Ostashkov is commonly regarded as one of the greatest Russian provincial towns. Its predominant streets had been laid out in Neoclassical style after the plans of Ivan Starov 1772. Local landmarks consist of the Ascension Church 1689, the Trinity Cathedral 1697, the Monastery of the Sign 1673, 1730s, 80s, and the mid-18th century Zhitny Cloister.

There is also a fantastic column erected by way of people of Ostashkov in 1787 to mark a spot in which a wooden citadel 1587 used to stand. The town's high-quality architecture and appealing setting by using the lake combine to make Ostashkov one of the maximum famous accommodations in Western Russia. The famous Nilov Monastery is on Stolobny Island, approximately 10 kilometers north from Ostashkov. It changed into the area where the Ostashkov Special Camp of the NKVD changed into and wherein roughly 6,300 Polish policemen and prisoners of warfare had been stored earlier than they have been done in Tver.