Tver Governorate (rus)

Tver Governorate

Tver Governorate ranks 2,465th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Buzău, Lusaka, and Qamishli. Memorable people born in Tver Governorate include Grigory Orlov, Boris Stürmer, and Pavel Chistyakov. Memorable people who died in Tver Governorate include Alexey Venetsianov. Tver Governorate has been the birth place of many politicians, and military personnels and the death place of many painters. Tver Governorate is located in Russia.

Tver Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 until 1929. Its seat was in Tver. The governorate was located in the north of the European part of the Russian Empire and bordered Novgorod Governorate in the north, Yaroslavl Governorate in the east, Vladimir Governorate in the southeast, Moscow Governorate in the south, Smolensk Governorate in the southwest, and Pskov Governorate in the west. Read more on Wikipedia