Masonic Gardens of Nikolai Lviv (Nikolskoye - Arpachevo - Vasilevo - Raek)

The strange story of a strange man. For our time, this is probably impossible. Imagine that you are a great programmer and at the same time write decent texts for websites. You have designed a cottage for yourself, and at the same time made projects of country residences for 40 very wealthy neighbors.

However, architecture is only a hobby, but still you have translated from Italian 4 volumes of the works of the famous Renaissance architect. You have several promising developments in the field of the latest home building technologies. They have been introduced at the highest level... Thanks to the discovery of the field, the country has expanded its raw material base. In preparation for the visit of the President of the Russian Federation to your city, you composed an opera. Well, other little things, like the publication of a collection of folk songs of the region. Oh, yes, you write poetry too.

Well? Do you?

Who can do that? Maybe Leonardo da Vinci! Mikhailo Lomonosov!

Or Nikolai Lvov. That's our hero's name. And what is impossible now, still met in our country in the XVIII century. Much is known about the life of this incredible man, only they rarely talk about him. Except in Torzhka, yes in St. Petersburg.

Our excursion is to the ancient estates where you can still see the exquisite creations of the magnificent architect. You will see the brightest and most easily accessible of the built by N.A. Lviv at home, in the Novotorzh district.

We will go to his Nikolskoye estate to see the famous Masonic pyramid and the temple-tomb, the idea of which he hatched all his life. In Arpachevo, where still stands above the dome of the Kazan church bell tower-lighthouse. In Vasilevo - after all, you need to walk along the Devil's Bridge, admire its reflection in the mirror surface of the pond ... And how not to see the precious necklace of the colonades of the Glebov estate in Raik? Not to admire the sophistication of the rotunda chapel in Torzhka?

We will talk about Freemasons, about a secret community, about which only a lazy person does not know. architecture and architects. After all, the great and famous are many, but only one gave a name to the architectural style. What does Palladianism have to do with it? We mean Lviv.) What does Andrea Palladio have to do with this? And who was the architect Nikolai Alexandrovich Lviv really?

• Excursion from Tver to Torjok
• Trip to Nikolskoe and Arpachevo
• Trip to Vasilevo and Mitino
• A trip to Znamenskoye-Rayok