15 August 2025

Том Сойер Фест

The Tom Sawyer Fest is a summer festival of restoration of the historical heritage by volunteers and sponsors. They focus their efforts particularly on the wooden houses in the city center. Most of the festival's objects are buildings represent no value in the eyes of local authorities, as they are not listed as historical or architectural monuments.

The festival was born in Samara in 2015, and its name honours the character in Mark Twain's novels, who was punished by painting a wooden fence.

Before
The postcard has a clever design: you have to paint the house! It features "Svirelin's House" (Moskovskaya St,. 28, in Pereslavl-Zalessky) named after priest Alexander Ivanovich Svirelin, caretaker of the Pereslavl Theological School, writer, local historian and historian. It has been transformed thanks to 250 adult volunteers (and a lot of children!) during twenty days.

After
See more pictures here or in the official website.

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