Known since the XIV century. In the charter of the Lithuanian prince Olgerd to the Patriarch of Constantinople Philothe, dated 1371, is mentioned Klichen - a frontier town of the Moscow principality, located on the same island on Seliger. In 1393, Klichen was captured and burned by the Novgorodians. According to legend, after that, the only resident of Klichin, fisherman Eustafy (Ostashko), survived, who moved to the neighboring peninsula south of Klichen - from him the city and got its name.

Ostashkovsky Znamensky nunnery appeared on the wasteland of Old Strugovishche, or Ubogoe, north of the city walls. This place was revered sacred - there were buried wanderers and fools. Immediately settled nuns. In the description of the Znamensky Monastery it is said: "... in 1655 there were 23 of them nuns and the main among them were Paraskeva and Golendukha. Patriarch Nikon, who was passing through Ostashkov this year, granted them alms to every old man by the hryvnia ... "(Uspensky V." Description of the Ostashkovsky Znamensky Monastery. "Tver, 1890, p.8).

From the history of the city it is known that the city was twice built up with a wooden defensive wall. She burned several times, rebuilt, but after the fire of 1711 the people refused to build a fortress. The architectural ensemble of the city fortress consisted of three important towers in economically defensive terms, which served as customs: Southern, Eastern and Northern. On the ashes of these towers, the grateful people built three bowing pillars in order to edify the descendants of the existence of the once stronghold.

Classicism dominated Ostashkov's residential architecture until the last quarter of the 19th century. The House of Artists Mitin is the most refined building of this type. The basis of the artistic appearance of this two-story mansion with a mezzanine is a four-column Ionic portico that distinguishes the center of the building.

On the island of Klichen on Seliger there is a miracle of the plant world - a rowan grove. It is especially beautiful here, of course, in the autumn, when the mountain ash grows. The nature of the island is extremely picturesque. The inner lake breathes peace and quiet. A unique sand spit flows smoothly into the waters of Seliger for more than a hundred meters. This is the only beauty, in its way, a place on the lake, attracting travelers here. The very name "Klichchen" is traditionally derived from the word "cry".

The only museum in the field of nature. Opened on July 5, 1986.

The exposition of the museum acquaints with various natural complexes of the Seliger region, with its plant and animal world. Particular attention is drawn to the picturesque dioramas of spruce forests, the deep-water part of Lake Seliger, the lair of the wolf.

Khachin is the largest island on Lake Seliger.

The area is more than 3 thousand hectares. From north to south, its length is about 9 km. From west to east 6 km.

The island is inhabited by bears, moose, wild boars, badgers, foxes, raccoons, rabbits, muskrat, beavers. Of waterfowl birds, it is necessary to note a bittern, a rather rare bird, which has chosen itself for nesting the coast of the island.

The village of Kravotyn is very ancient. In the XVI century, it became the center of the volost and more than once figured in various documents. For example, it is known that when these lands were owned by Boyar Volsky, in the village there already existed a wooden church of the "Introduction of the Most-Holy Mother of God to the Temple". Its name was preserved for many years, and the church, built again at the end of the 18th century, was dedicated to the same holiday.

The church in Khotoshino is located away from the village, on top of a small sloping hill, around which the fields are spread. It was built in 1878 at the expense of the parishioners. Around the church was a fence, from which only the gates survived. The building of the church is brick. The volume-spatial composition of the building - three-part, consisted of a besstolpnogo, one-headed, two-lighted chetverik.

A unique object of wildlife.

Scopa Eurasian (Pandion haliaetus L.) - a rare species, which declines in numbers. In the Tver region. the population of the species is estimated at about 30-40 breeding pairs.

Since 1986, in the vicinity of Lake Sonino, there are several pairs of nesting here in the Osprey. To preserve the local natural balance in the ecosystem of the forest-lake-marsh complex, it was decided to take this place under environmental protection, endowing it with the status "Nature Monument".

In the heart of Russia - in the Tver region, near the village of Yeltsy, on the picturesque peninsula near the Eletski ples of Lake Seliger, there is an old estate New Yeltsy, built at the end of the XVIII century, owned by the Tver landlords Tolstoy (from the far branch of the family of Count Tolstoy). They raised their pedigree to the legendary Indres, who left Chernigov from the German lands in 1353 with two sons and a large squadron, who adopted the name of Leontius at the baptism.

Peno, - a lake in the north-west of the Tver region of Russia, in the Penovsky district, one of the Upper Volga lakes located in the upper Volga.

The Verkhnevolzhsky Beyshlot is a dam in the upper reaches of the Volga River, forming the Upper Volga Reservoir, which unites the Lake Volgo, Lake Peno, Lake Vselug and Lake Sterzh into a single basin. Located 5 km below the place where the Volga flows from Lake Volgo.

The length of the dam is 46 meters, the average annual flow of water is 29 m³ / s, the annual fluctuation of the upper beech level is up to 3.5 meters, the lower one is about 0.1 m.

The building history of the Assumption Church in the village of Shchuch'ye does not differ from the history of many rural churches. After the wooden Nikolsky church burnt down in 1778, the construction of a stone church began. First, in just one year, the refectory was built with the southern St. Nicholas chapel, and the temple dedicated to the feast of the Aspen was completed until 1790.

The Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord was founded in 2000, as a chapel chapel before the re-creation of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ and the Nativity of the Virgin. Consecrated in 2002 by the Archbishop of Tver and Kashinsky Viktor.

The temple was built from larch, brought from the Arkhangelsk region, in a fairly short time, and thanks to the efforts of the builders and the help of the parishioners and sacrifices, the work was carried out all year round, without stopping either in the rain or in the cold frost.

The Volga is a lake in Selizharovsky, Ostashkovsky and Penovskiy districts of the Tver region of Russia, 25 km to the south of Ostashkov, the largest in the system of the Upper Volga lakes in the Valdai Upland, the fourth and last of the group of lakes through which the upper reaches of the Volga River passes is regulated by the Verkhnevolzhsky Beyshlot.

In memory of the soldiers of the 1st, 3rd shock army of those killed in the battles for the liberation of our Motherland in the period from 1942 to 1943.

In 1701 on the island was founded the monastery of the Solovetsky Wonderworkers of Saints Zosima and Savvatia. In 1947 the church was blown up. Since 1995 - the center of religious pilgrimage. A wooden church and a priest's house were built over the monastery's only preserved structure - a boulder glacier. Novosolovetsky Island is one of such places in Russia, where one wants to return again and again.

The monastery near the source of the Volga has its own history. It began with the construction of a stone church in the village of Volgo-Verkhovye. At the initiative of the inhabitants of the Volga cities, who wanted to celebrate the spiritual significance of the beginning of the great Russian river, a stone church began to be built on voluntary donations in the village of Volgo-Verkhovye. Great help was provided by the All-Russian Society of Saint Olga.

The Church of the Smolensk Mother of God Odigitrii in the village of Okovtsi was built on the site, according to legend, in 1539 a miraculous phenomenon occurred to local residents of two miraculous icons: the Life-giving Cross of the Lord and the Blessed Virgin Mary Odigitria. In January 1540, icons were brought to Moscow, where they were until July. Then they were returned to Okovtsy, where two small wooden churches were built on the site of their appearance.

A stone church with a bell tower, built on the funds of parishioners at the end of the XVIII century. It was rebuilt in the XIX century. There was a parish school at the church. In the 1930s it was closed, abandoned.

In the vicinity of Seliger a number of settlements have a long history. Some of today's villages in the area, for example, the Upper Volga lakes were once fortified by Lithuanian towns.

From the beginning of XIII and until the end of the XVII century. on these places a wave of Lithuanian invasions was repeatedly rolled. Only in the XIII century. Similar incursions were committed in 1225-1227, 1245 and 1258gg. For their consolidation on the Upper Volga in the first of these invasions, Lithuanians built several small towns, one of which was Gorishin.

The landscape is about 7 km long, resembles a mountain one. The speed of water flow in the Volga River in this place is 0 - 0.6 m / s. From the top of the hill opens an exceptionally picturesque view of the valley of the Volga River and surrounding forests. The hillside is occupied by a rich meadow grass with separate powerful old-aged pine trees.

Brosno is a lake in the north-west of the Tver region of Russia, in the Andreepol district of the Tver region. The lake belongs to the basin of the Western Dvina and the Baltic Sea.

The area of ​​Lake Brosno 7.2 km². Height above sea level is 243 meters, length is 10.8 km, maximum width is -4 km, average -2, length of coastline is 16.2 km. Lake Brosno is the deepest in the Tver region, its greatest depth is 41.5 meters, the average depth is 17 meters. The origin of the lake is hollow.