Once Torzhok blocked the route, a great shortage of grain and famine in Novgorod would follow.

Consequently, Torzhok was known as a key to the Novgorod Republic and frequently changed hands during feudal internecine wars.

Alexander Pushkin, for instance, used to pass through Torzhok on a number of occasions, and there is a museum dedicated to him in the town.

Novotorzhsky District, with the administrative center in Torzhok, was established within Tver Okrug of Moscow Oblast.

JSC Pozhtekhnika and OAO Torzhok Plant Printing Inks account for 70% of all industrial output.

Architectural monuments of Torzhok include a number of parish churches, dating back to the late 17th or early 18th centuries.

In 2020, a project was presented in the nomination "Historical Center of Torzhok and Estate Architecture of Nikolay Lvov".

[12] Its first public discussion took place at a round table organized at the All-Russian Historical and Ethnographic Museum (Torzhok).The nomination project was approved by the leading experts in the field of architectural heritage who participated in the Round Table: Dmitry Shvidkovsky (President of the Academy of Architecture and Construction, Rector of Moscow Architectural Institute), Andrey Batalov, Mikhail Milchik, Konstantin Mikhaylov.

The project provides for the creation of a serial nomination, like the one that unites the main buildings of Andrea Palladio, Nikolai Lvov's creative landmark - "Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of Veneto".

Torzhok air base located near the town which has in residence the 344th Center for Combat Employment and Retraining of Personnel of Army Aviation.