Mednoye

Mednoye stands on the Tvertsa west of Tver, along the road between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it was both a trading village and a post station for travellers on that busy route. Alexander Radishchev used its name for a chapter of his #italic Journey from Saint Petersburg to Moscow#!, portraying the sale of a peasant family to pay their master's debts. In 1793 an Ottoman embassy led by Mustafa Rasih Pasha stopped here on its way to Saint Petersburg after the Treaty of Jassy.