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The Best Attractions In Tikhvinsky District

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Monument Glory to Heroes

Rimsky-Korsakov House Museum

Transfiguration Cathedral

Tikhvin Assumption Monastery

Tikhvin Memorial Museum of History, Architecture and Art

Memorial Russian Khatyn

Tikhvinsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the seventeen in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the oblast and borders with Lodeynopolsky District in the north, Podporozhsky District in the northeast, Babayevsky District of Vologda Oblast in the east, Boksitogorsky District in the southeast, Lyubytinsky District of Novgorod Oblast in the south, Kirishsky District in the west, and Volkhovsky District in the northwest. The area of the district is 7,018 square kilometers . Its administrative center is the town of Tikhvin. Population : 12,529 ; 14,637 ; 17,104 .
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The Best Attractions In Tikhvinsky District

1. Tikhvin Assumption Monastery Tikhvin
The Tikhvin Assumption Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery founded in 1560. The monastery is located in the town of Tikhvin, on the left bank of the Tikhvinka River. It hosts the icon of the Theotokos of Tikhvin, one of the most venerated Russian icons.
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2. Rimsky-Korsakov House Museum Tikhvin
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was a master of orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade—are staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas. Scheherazade is an example of his frequent use of fairy tale and folk subjects. Rimsky-Korsakov believed, as did fellow composer Mily Balakirev and critic Vladimir Stasov, in developing a nationalistic, Moscalski style of classical music. This style employed Russian folk song and lore along with exotic harmonic, melodic and rhythmic elements in a practice known as musical orientalism, and eschewed tra...
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3. Antony Dymsky Holy Trinity Monastery Tikhvin
4. Tikhvin Memorial Museum of History, Architecture and Art Tikhvin
5. Transfiguration Cathedral Tikhvin
6. Monument Glory to Heroes Tikhvin
Saint Petersburg is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million . An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has a status of a federal subject . Situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, it was founded by Tsar Peter the Great on 27 May [O.S. 16 May] 1703. On 1 September 1914, the name was changed from Saint Petersburg to Petrograd , on 26 January 1924 to Leningrad , and on 1 October 1991 back to Saint Petersburg. During the periods 1713–1728 and 1732–1918, Saint Petersburg was the capital of Imperial Russia. In 1918, the central government bodies moved to Moscow, which is about 625 km to the south-east. Saint Petersburg is one of th...
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7. Gatchinskiye Geysers Leningrad Oblast
8. Memorial Russian Khatyn Leningrad Oblast

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