Russian economy is strong but its society is rife with crime and corruption. Photo: Jerrold Bennett
THE TVER REGION, which lies two hundred kilometers to the north of Moscow in the direction of St. Petersburg, was the capital of a powerful medieval state. In 1246, Alexander Nevsky entrusted it to his brother Yaroslav Yaroslavich, and very soon this dynasty transformed an inhospitable and uncultivated land into one of Russia’s wealthiest and most populous states. The ensuing two-hundred-year battle for supremacy between Tver and Moscow is a much-visited historical subject.
The Volga runs through the city of Tver and continues southward to Yaroslav, Nizhniy Novgorod, Saratov, Volgograd (former Stalingrad), and Astrachan, where it enters the Caspian Sea. One small town in the region, Kostinovo, has found its way into the papers because it now has just one inhabitant, ...
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