* "The city is clear and resonant, like a poetic stanza...." Classic Kaluga city tour. A story about the history of the city, about architectural monuments, about wonderful people who lived or came to our city, Kaluga is one of the most beautiful cities in the Russian province. The city is remarkable not only for its individual architectural monuments (merchant chambers and estates, a unique stone bridge — a Roman viaduct, temples), but also for the preserved ensemble of the city center of the 18th-early 19th century. You will hear about Kaluga merchants who were great benefactors, but they knew the value of every penny and came up with a kind of delicacy called Kaluga dough. You will see how the Kaluga merchants dressed, visit a small "interactive". K. E. Tsiolkovsky, the "Leonardo da Vinci" of the 20th century A. L. Chizhevsky lived here. There were Gogol, A. K. Tolstoy...