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Krasny Kholm

 

A slowly dying out town in Tver oblast. The first thing you see when entering Krasny Kholm is the cemetery church of Zosima and Savvaty (1797).

 

Opposite this church across the road is a crazy children's playground, assembled from all sorts of metal trash and tires. It doesn't look very safe.

 

The Antoniyev Monastery of St. Nicholas (XV century), which gave rise to the town. Actually Krasny Kholm belonged to the monastery till 1764. The monastery was dismantled in the 1930s and is now being restored. All churches, including the oldest in the Tver region St. Nicholas Cathedral, are in monumental scaffolding. From a distance they look like Shinto shrines.

 

The former monastery's passage gate.

 

The preserved corner tower.

 

Monastic water intake from the Mogocha River.

 

Wooden train station. Suburban trains between Sonkovo, Pestovo and Vesyegonsk stop here. But in general, the direction Kashin - Sonkovo - Krasny Kholm - Pestovo - Mga is used mainly for freight traffic from Moscow to St. Petersburg, since the main route is loaded with passenger express trains.

 

The historical center has been preserved in fragments. Shopping arcade.

 

Only the bell tower was preserved from the main Trinity church. On the site of the temple itself, an unremarkable new church was erected with a deviation from the axis.

 

Few brick buildings.

 

An old merchant house with a superstructure.

 

There are a lot of elegant village wooden merchant houses. One of them, on Zaretskaya Street, was until recently occupied by a kindergarten. Let's hope it will still live after its closure.

 

Evacuation slide.

 

The local museum (on the corner of Kommunisticheskaya and Krasnoarmeyskaya streets).

 

The house of Baruzdin-Khiltov (Lev Tolstoy street).

 

Other wood houses.

 

The attic window is covered with the State emblem of the USSR.

 

Lenin with a built-in tribune.

 

Stalinist house of culture.

 

Pre-war cinema. Supposedly it was made from materials obtained during the dismantling of the monastery and the Trinity church.

 

Wobbly suspension pedestrian bridges across the Neledina River.

 

Other details.

 

The cats of Krasny Kholm.

 

Getting in (as of July 2023): four hours ride by car from Moscow via M-11 tollway and Tver. It is also possible to get to Tver by train and transfer to the bus going to Vesyegonsk. Such trip will take more than 6 hours.

 

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