Tver, on the Volga 150km northwest of Moscow, was capital of an unruly ministate that was Moscow’s chief rival in the 14th and 15th centuries. Little evidence of Tver’s medieval heyday remains, as it subsequently went through a series of upheavals. It was punished for rising against the Golden Horde, conquered by Ivan III, savaged by Ivan the Terrible, seized by the Poles and completely destroyed by fire in 1763.
Categories