page_title: Bezhetsky District
section_title: Culture and recreation
hierarchical_section_title: Bezhetsky District / Culture and recreation
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Сохранившаяся постройка Введенского монастыря, колокольня Введенской церкви, выстроена в 1680-1682 годах ярославскими мастерами по заказу думного дьяка С. И. Заборовского.
context_page_description: Bezhetsky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the thirty-six in Tver Oblast, Russia. It is located in the east of the oblast and borders with Molokovsky District in the north, Krasnokholmsky District in the northwest, Sonkovsky and Kesovogorsky Districts in the east, Kashinsky District in the southeast, Rameshkovsky District in the south, and with Maksatikhinsky District in the west. The area of the district is 2,810 square kilometers. Its administrative center is the town of Bezhetsk. Population: 36,701; 14,277; 18,786. The population of Bezhetsk accounts for 66.8% of the district's total population.
context_section_description: The district contains twenty-two cultural heritage monuments of federal significance (seven of them in the town of Bezhetsk) and additionally sixty objects classified as cultural and historical heritage of local significance (twenty-four of them in Bezhetsk). The federal monuments include trade arcades and the Church of the Presentation of Mary in Bezhetsk, a number of (mostly 18th century) churches in the villages, as well as a number of archeological sites.
  There are two museums in the district. The Bezhetsk District and Literature Museum, located in Bezhetsk, shows expositions about the author Vyacheslav Shishkov and the musician Vasily Andreyev, who were both born in Bezhetsk. The House of Poets museum in the selo of Gradnitsy highlights the biography of Anna Akhmatova, one of the most celebrated Russian poets. The building was originally located in the village of Slepnyovo and belonged to the mother of the poet Nikolay Gumilev, who was married to Akhmatova between 1910 and 1918. Akhmatova, Gumilev, and their son, Lev Gumilev, we spending considerable periods of time in the house in the 1910s. In 1918 the house was sold and eventually moved to Gradnitsy. The museum was open in 1989, after serving for many years as a school.
caption: The bell-tower of the Church of the Presentation of Mary, Bezhetsk.
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