Talk:Vyshny Volochyok

I removed schoolboy's nonsense to the talk page. Too much megalomania for this drowsy village. --Ghirlandajo 09:21, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Vyshny Volochyok, is called Russian Venice. The oldest waterway from Varangians to Greeks has come through it since olden times. Numerous sites of primitive man residing discovered along the banks of its lakes and rivers, are evidences of late Stone Age´s settlements here. Rivers, canals, lakes and artificial reservour are the main distinctive marks of our town whose embankments´ full length stretches out for 20 miles. Our canals and sluice-gate have presented themselves as the first, artificially made in Russia hydrotechnical structure of that kind, set up by Dutch masters in 1703. All Vyshnevolotskaya water system makes up more than 878,75 miles of waterway from Rybinsk (Yaroslavl´ region) to St. Petersburg. On the 28-th of May 1770 Katherine the Second had signed up an imperial order for Senate which established to Vyshny Volocheck the official status and privilege of being a town. Stone locks and dams were erected instead of wooden ones. Tveretsky and Tsninsky canals, built by Syerdyukov in 1722, had been strengthened with huge granitic slabs. In 1802 Obvodny canal was dug out. The sample of the second half of the XVlll-th century, imperious Putevoy palace, retains in our memory the moments of arriving Field Marshal Kutuzov. Another interesting architectural ensemble is formed with series of Old, partly destroyed by fire, and New ones, Merchant Trade Rows built in 1837 and 1852. By the middle of the XlX-th century there had been added one more, at this time land route, leading from Moscow to St. Petersburg. It was a railroad track called after tsar Nickolay the ll. In August of 1849 the test train left Vyshny Volocheck for Tver, and then, a few years later, in 1851 the freight and passenger transportation along that (by the name of Red October now) railway started. You can see our railway station facade raised upon project of Konstantine Ton, the architect-builder of the Christ Saviour Cathedral in Moscow. It seems on land of Slavs, deserted with slanting streams of troubles and fear, Wow! Right at sites of ruined churches New Russian golden domes appear. In 1991 the renaissance of Kazan Virgin´s convent began. Nowadays divine services in Twelfthday church and Assumption cathedral are performed. Dateline: 11.10.04 Timeline: 13.00 MSK There are monuments constructed in the honour of Russian painters. One of them, to A. Vyenitsianov is in the centre of town also as another, to I. E. Repin, located in Academic dacha of artists. The great Russian painter I. E. Repin on his arriving to the Mstino lake exclaimed: It´s the same Russia! All her soul and loveliness is here. It´s like a song! These charming landscapes conquered the hearts of Peter the Great and Katherine ll. The outstanding painter Kuindzhy made marine battles between boat fleets here, in which the students of Imperial Art Academy took part. Viz. on the banks of the picturesque Mstino lake, at the distance of 7 miles from Moscow - St. Petersburg highway there is a tourist center situated. The visitors are accomodated at double-roomed de-luxe apartments in agreement with their choice. All the rooms are individually different, trimmed in accordance to Euro-standard point of view, telephonized with inner lines, having shower-baths, washing sets and privies. Food and Drinks for holiday-makers are served in the bar-restaurant on the upper floor of a cottage. To render the clients´ needs and services have to be Russian bath-house, vocal music programmes with striptease show. They organize hunting expeditions on elk, wild boar, fox and wolf also as for such wildfowl as wood-grouse and heath-cock, plus some other waterfowl game. Surrounding forests are rich in mushrooms and berries. But it isn´t necessary for you to go in the nearest grove or marshy land yourselves. Local residents will bring you fresh gifts of nature while restaurant staff-cooks will arrange everything by your order. Abundance of water provides the guests an opportunity to fish on river or lake stretches and back-waters catching their fancy. Local huntsmen are always ready to give their helping hand in the process of making fish-soup by fire. The clients´ motor transport is put in the automobile parking lot while its refueling can be always possible at the petrol station of Dvizheniye (Movement) enterprise, disposed outside Vyshny Volocheck on the right hand side of motorway in Moscow direction. Famouse writers and poets, TV and Radio reporters, actors and actresses, outstanding artists and the highest state officials, VIPs had their dinner at that place and to each of them the most favourite dish had been offered. You are always welcomed as well! Poets call my town Russian Venice because it's a town of the first artificial canals in our country. Long ago it was impossible to come from the Baltic to the Caspian and Black seas by water without using the ancient net of portages located along the great waterway from Varagians to Greeks. Inside the town's territory there flows the Tsna river bringing its waters to the Mstino lake from which another one, the Msta, flows itself from falling into the Ilmen lake. Then in its turn the Volkhov river comes up farther North towards the Ladoga lake with the Neva river flowing into the Gulf of Finland. Here's the northern part of that ancient waterway while its second half leads us South. The Tvertsa river coming through my town as well as that of the Tsna is in its turn one of the Volga's tributaries. The Volga leads her way to the Caspian Sea. The Don and the Volga rivers are "neighbours". At one point they go side by side almost and afterwards each one turns East and West. There had always been a lot of big and small portages- shallow-watered or dry-and-high places there where local settlers worked by force and wit in helping those merchants who had to move loaded boats up and down the portages in order to sell their goods in more or less far foreign lands. I think many of the locals knew that hauling over dry land a boat and its goods from one stream to another they took part in a very old handicraft inherited by them from the people of Stone Age, primogenitors of all modern nations. Our local portage was used by Novgorodtsy and Kievlyane in 10-12 centuries. Later it had often been an apple of discord between Muscovites, Tverichi and Novgorodtsy. In 1498 the first mail staging post appeared at Volock (Portage) when Ivan the third reigned. About that time a new name had entered the Cronicles- Vyshniy Volocheck (Upper Portage). May be you know that very often barges and boats had to be dragged over the land by people who were called later barge haulers by the time when some canals were dug for shortening the time of moving goods from Moscow to the new Russian capital having being built according to the order of Russian emperor Peter the Great. If you are familiar with works of I.E.Repin, the outstanding Russian painter you could remember his picture "Burlaks on the Volga". There is a stone bridge ,made of huge granite slabs in the town near the Twelfth-day cathedral having two white bell towers. The bridge bears marks of thick hemp ropes on its wall under it as if there were some kind of reminiscence written in stone of that hard time. The cathedral is surrounded with the circle of canals dug up by hand three centuries ago. You wouldn't even think of your being on the isle while visiting the active church there.

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