The perspective of Millionnaya St. from Znamensky Lane to Sudebnaya Sq. View from the roof of the Municipal Duma

Photo by I. A. Tachalov. Tver, 1910s. Published by R. Ya. Kiikchy. Tver, 1910s. The Collection of RNL

In the foreground of the photo pictured the part of Millionnaya St. (Sovetskaya) between Znamensky (Svobodny) and Ilyinsky (Tverskoy Prospect) Lanes. On the right one can see the upper part of the house of the Governor's office. Today it is house № 18 in Sovetskaya St. As all the two-storeyed houses there it was built in 1760s. In the end of the XVIII century the Tver General-Governor accommodated there. In 1840-es the house was put under the jurisdiction of a chairman of the Revenue Department and in XIX-XX centuries the corner house was occupied by the Governor's office. In the upper right comer of the photo the cupolas of the Church of the Ascension are, which was erected in the first third of the XIX under the project of provincial architect I. F. L'vov. The third tier of the bell-tower was built up in 1902 by architect V. I. Nazarov. In the beginning of the XX century in two-storeyed houses showed in the left half of the photo was a large complex of shops. In the house of Egorchenko in the corner of Ilyinsky Lane and Milionnaya St. were a fancy-goods shop of M. P. Moskvitina, a confectioner's of D. F. Terentjev and a beer shop of Trekhgornaya manufacture. The drugstore of Gurchack was at the same place. Medicines were sold in the house of F. R. Mocharskaya too, where was a drugstore of L. L. Mal'ts. In the house of N. N. Lebedevsky, the third from Ilyinsky Lane was a shoe-shop of A.S.Konyaev, while the owner, Nikita Nikolaevich Lebedevsky, managed furniture and cotton textiles shops. In the next to it house of P. I. Svetogorova was a fancy-goods shop of I. K. Kvasov and a shop of S. Ya. Danilov. The latter sold colonial goods and had wine cellars. Last on the left house at the corner of modern Sovetskaya St. and Svobodny Lane was occupied by the Tver department of the State bank (it is shown partly). In the Soviet time all those houses were built up with second floors.