Toropets is the oldest town in the Tver Region of Russia. It was first mentioned in 1074. The annalistic text tells about the death of Toropets resident, Monk Isaac of the Caves in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The city itself was first mentioned in documents in 1168 as the center of the independent Toropets Principality. It is held that in 1239, Toropets held the marriage of Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky with Alexandra, the daughter of Polotsk prince Bryachislav. As legend has it, the young wife presented the citizens with an icon of Our Lady of Korsun.
Today, the town is the administrative center of the Toropets District, which forms the municipal formation of the town of Toropets with the status of urban settlement as the only settlement in its composition.
There are 41 cultural monuments of all-Russian significance and more than 50 cultural monuments of regional significance on the territory of the town. In the southern part of the town, on the shore of Lake Solomennoye, the ramparts of the High Small settlement still soar up; to the south and west of it there lies the Big Old settlement; and on the island where the Toropa River flows out of Lake Solomennoye there is the Red Val settlement (the town's Kremlin of the XVI-XVII centuries).
The postage stamp provides an image of the monument in token of the marriage of Alexander Nevsky and Princess Alexandra Bryachislavna (sculptor A. Kovalchuk) against the background of the High Small settlement and the Cathedral of the Icon of Our Lady of Korsun, as well as the coat of arms of Toropets.
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