On the site of modern Rozhdestvenskaya Street it began literally from the founding of the city. Construction progressed rather slowly. It is documented that already in the 14th century this territory was part of the border of wood-earth fortifications known as the Small Ostrog. Their border ran along the line of modern Sergievskaya Street
But to be completely precise, it was not a street in the modern sense of the word, but a narrow winding path stretching from the Zelensky Congress to the modern Vakhitov Lane. From the shopping arcades located under the Kremlin hill, this “path” received the name “Zaryadye”.
The 17th century is a special period in the history of Nizhny Novgorod. At this time, it began to develop especially rapidly economically. And at the beginning of the “rebellious” century, the street began to be called Kosmodemyanskaya after the Church of Kozma and Demyan that stood in the center of Nizhny Posad (now it is Markin Square, or more precisely, the site of the Nizhnovenergo building).
But after the construction of the stone Nativity Church in 1653 by merchant-industrialist Semyon Zadorin, it began to be called Rozhdestvenskaya. This church was badly damaged by another fire, and another guest, Grigory Dmitrievich Stroganov, built an architecturally original building nearby in 1719, which still exists today.
At first, the development of Nizhny Posad was carried out chaotically, in separate groups of buildings. But in 1770, the first regular plan of Nizhny Novgorod was drawn up, and in its subsequent revision in 1787, Rozhdestvenskaya Street was defined in straight lines. And at the beginning of the 19th century, according to the order of engineer A. A. Betancourt, in order to avoid fires, it was decided to build up this part of the city exclusively with stone buildings, and during the implementation of this decision, the street was, if possible, straightened by demolishing some dilapidated buildings.
The name of the famous builder of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair is, of course, no coincidence. Since 1816, Rozhdestvenskaya Street has become closely associated with fair trade. The wealthy Nizhny Novgorod merchants built hotels, apartment buildings, and banks at Rozhdestvenskaya - stone, solid buildings with expensive stucco decorations, which were like calling cards of their owners, their high social status and wealth.
The street underwent a particularly significant reconstruction in 1835-1839, when in the middle of it, on the site of the famous merchant Sofronov’s house, Sofronovskaya Square was created, which became the social and business center of the Lower Bazaar (modern Markin Square). At the exit of the street to the Oka Dock Bridge, warehouses were demolished and Alekseevskaya Square was laid out, named after the tent-roofed chapel in the name of Metropolitan Alexy that stood here (now Blagoveshchenskaya Square, named after the neighboring Annunciation Monastery).
The All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition of 1896 changed the appearance of the city in many ways. The central streets (including Rozhdestvenskaya) were illuminated with arc electric lights, sidewalks and roads were paved, and cable cars began operating in the area of People’s Unity Square and the Pokhvalinsky Congress. A power plant appeared opposite the pontoon bridge, providing the city with electricity. A big event for Nizhny was the opening of tram traffic on June 21, 1896. The line, 3.5 versts long, ran from Skoba to the bridge, connecting both funiculars. For the opening of the exhibition, the house of the merchants Blinov brothers (“Blinovsky Passage”) and the stock exchange were built on Rozhdestvenskaya Street. Both buildings decorate the modern Markina Square.
Thus, the street played the role of the city’s business center. There were six temples here. Let's list them, starting from the Kremlin:
- Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist (more precisely, an architectural ensemble consisting of a temple and two chapels: “Spasskaya” (at the altar of the church) and “Tsarskaya” (to the left of the church porch)). Preserved
- Church of St. Nicholas the World of Lycia the Wonderworker “at Market” (stood on the site of the modern shopping center “Ant”). Destroyed.
- Church of the Life-Giving Trinity (Vakhitov lane). Destroyed.
- 2 churches of St. unmercenaries Kozma and Damian: old and new (modern Markin Square). Both are destroyed.
- Church in the name of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Stroganovskaya). Preserved.
Rozhdestvenskaya Street(in Soviet times: Kooperativnaya, named after Mayakovsky, popular: Mayakovka)- the second most important street in the city after Pokrovki , a hub of restaurants, bars and nightlife Nizhny Novgorod , together with the adjacent Markin Square and Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment
At the same time, this is one of the oldest streets in the city, which has preserved the merchant flavor and “mercantile spirit” of the center of the business and commercial part of Nizhny.
No wonder the area adjacent to the shore Oka and Volga, called the Lower Bazaar . Banks, shipping company offices, shops, guest houses, restaurants, mansions - and nearby, under the Ivanovo Tower Kremlin , famous for stories Maxim Gorky "Millioshka" — the habitat of the roach, the “city bottom.”
Eras and styles mixed in the former trade and financial center of Nizhny. The metropolitan tastes brought by the exhibition of 1896 generously endowed merchant mansions with bay windows and domes, causing the envy of neighbors and the admiration of visiting guests.
The concept for the improvement of Rozhdestvenskaya Street involves dividing it into two zones: pedestrian and transport. Pedestrian traffic is organized along the territory along even-numbered houses to the tram line. Thanks to the fact that the second tram line was dismantled, it was possible to widen the roadway along odd-numbered houses. Thus, a parking area was allocated. The movement of trams will be reversible and on one track. Beautiful lamps, benches, trash cans and flower beds were installed along the entire street.
The houses located along the ancient street were not left without attention. It was decided to repair all facades and equip each building with unique lighting so that architectural monuments would appear before Nizhny Novgorod residents in all their glory.
An amount of 39 million rubles was allocated from the city budget to update the roadway and replace well hatches. Major road repairs were carried out using crushed stone-mastic asphalt concrete, which has the highest resistance to damage and durability. The old inspection well hatches have been replaced with “floating” ones, which weigh much less than their predecessors, have a durable frame and can be easily adjusted in height.
Two sculptural compositions were placed on the street. In particular, one of them - a memorial plate - is located on the site of the former Trinity Church cemetery in memory of the found burials of residents of Nizhny Novgorod Posad.
Another sculpture, made in the form of cast iron shoes and a bag of salt, is dedicated to the greed of Nizhny Novgorod merchants, recalling the activities of the merchant Fyodor Blinov. It stands on the site of the former Salt Office.
On November 2, 2012, the head of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Sorokin, governor Valeriy Shantsev and head of administration Oleg Kondrashov took part in the grand opening of the restored section of the street. Rozhdestvenskaya.
The reconstruction of the entire Rozhdestvenskaya street is planned to be completely completed in the next few years.
Blinovsky passage
The complex, which is commonly called the Blinovsky Passage, was built as the largest apartment building according to the design of the St. Petersburg architect A. K. Bruni and was completed in 1879. This house, made in neo-Russian style, received its name from the owners - the richest Nizhny Novgorod merchant-industrialists, the Blinov brothers, who became rich mainly in the trade of bread, as well as the transportation and sale of salt.
Of all the houses on Rozhdestvenskaya Street, this one was the most multifunctional and densely populated. A variety of offices, shops, hotels, and warehouses were once located in the main building, facing Rozhdestvenskaya with its main façade, and in the “yard” parts of the house. The entire first floor was occupied by expensive shops with separate entrances. The shops on the second floor were accessible via internal staircases. When looking at the building from the former Safronovskaya Square (now Markin Square), you can see that on the left side of the five-story building there is the end of the block in which hotels and “stock exchange rooms” were located. In the central part on this level there was Permyakov’s restaurant, famous for the fact that it celebrated the departure of Maxim Gorky into exile.
In the right volume there was the first telegraph in the Volga region and the office of the oil stores of the Nobil brothers. Until 1896, this house housed a stock exchange. On the ground floor there was a passage that gave the name to the whole house.
During the Soviet years, the house still housed a post office, telegraph office, shops, and then a court was also located. And actually, in our time, little has changed - the building contains shops, restaurants, and various offices. Therefore, we can say that the idea of the Blinov brothers has fully justified itself, even though now without their capital...
The passage was built in 1876-1878 by architect R.Ya. Kilewein, designed by St. Petersburg architect A.K. Bruni. By order of the Blinovs, it was a huge four-story arcade building, the decorative and artistic decoration of which was stylized as “Ancient Rus'” using flies, piecework, machicolations in the attic floor, etc. Contemporaries in the 80s of the 19th century noted that during the construction of the passage “there were pretensions to grace... the height was enormous, the glass was mirrored,” but behind all this were hidden “matting coolies, barrels of kerosene and groceries.”
Some experts consider the Blinovsky passage to be a specific apartment building. In contrast to the apartment buildings of the early 19th century, it included primarily commercial and business premises. The central volume was occupied by a restaurant, shops with offices, banks, and apartment housing was located on the top floor. The left volume housed a hotel, the right - a telegraph office.
The perimeter of the courtyards was made up of two-story shops with offices. The main central entrance led to the passage, which was part of the system of courtyard buildings and was used for trading premises and a stock exchange.
In 1864, Nizhny Novgorod was visited by the heir to the throne, Nikolai Alexandrovich, who personally honored the Blinovs and their enterprise on Sofronovskaya Square with a visit. In honor of this event, the Blinovs allocated 25 thousand rubles for the establishment of a public bank, which they called Nikolaevsky. The Blinov brothers contributed large sums to the initial capital of the bank, financing orphanages, almshouses, hospitals, gymnasiums, schools, libraries, for the maintenance of which the bank annually allocated significant financial resources. The bank also provided money for urban services, including the installation of water supply, sewerage, electricity, and a telephone network, and also allocated funds for scholarships and benefits for fire victims.
In the Blinovs' passage, among others, the main office of the joint-stock Nizhny Novgorod-Samara Land Bank, opened in Nizhny Novgorod in 1872, worked. The bank met the need for mortgages that increased at the end of the 19th century by carrying out its financial transactions throughout eastern Russia. The Blinovsky Passage also housed the office of the Nizhny Novgorod Postal and Telegraph District, which was opened on October 1, 1886, the first in the Volga region. By the way, the Blinovs were one of the first in Nizhny to have a telephone. In total, in 1885 there were no more than 50 rooms in the city.
Apartment house of N. A. Bugrova.
A truly wonderful decoration of the city is the apartment building of Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bugrov, designated No. 27 on Rozhdestvenskaya Street. The history of its construction is closely connected with preparations for the XVI All-Russian Trade and Industrial Exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod in 1896. Major urban planning transformations dedicated to this grandiose event directly affected the area of the so-called Lower Bazaar, the actual business center of the city. Pompous mansions, shops and bank buildings were built on Nizhne-Volzhskaya Embankment and Rozhdestvenskaya Street. Many old houses have new facades with lush, eclectic decorative elements.
Since the middle of the 19th century, the site where this house was built belonged to the prominent merchant family of the Bugrovs, who bought it from the businessmen Pyatovs. The Bugrovs carried out active stone construction here. According to the real estate assessment sheet of the Rozhdestvenskaya part of Nizhny Novgorod (1874), Alexander Petrovich Bugrov owned two adjacent households overlooking both Rozhdestvenskaya Street and the Nizhne-Volzhskaya Embankment. The first was a three-story stone house and a one-story stone outbuilding. The second, corner, household consisted of a three-story stone house, two stone outbuildings of three and two floors, as well as stone and wooden service buildings. These buildings were used as trade and office buildings, were rented out under contracts and brought substantial profits to the owners. So, for example, the first homeownership gave the Bugrov family a not bad annual income of up to 945 rubles.
Everything would be fine, but the last representative of the famous merchant dynasty, Nikolai Alexandrovich, the largest Nizhny Novgorod industrialist, financier, philanthropist and philanthropist, was not satisfied with the “modest” appearance of the houses on Rozhdestvenskaya he inherited from his father. To develop the design of the front building, the famous metropolitan architect, academician Vladimir Petrovich Zeidler (1857 - 1914) was invited, who arrived as the main producer of works at the Exhibition, the author of the projects of many buildings in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Anapa.
The house was originally conceived as a profitable one: with shops on the first floor, and most importantly with the office of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Volzhsko-Kama Commercial Bank on the second, as evidenced by the corresponding inscriptions on the facade, preserved on the design drawings (name of the bank, names of store owners and trading companies). It is known that by this time N.A. Bugrov had been a regular customer and an influential member of the accounting and loan committee of this bank for many years.
The choice of the bank was not accidental. Perhaps the most famous bank in pre-revolutionary Russia was founded in St. Petersburg by Vasily Aleksandrovich Kokorev - a truly bright, original and amazing man. Kokorev came from the burghers - Old Believers of the small remote town of Soligalich, Kostroma province. The same faith with the founder of the institution, and Bugrov, as you know, was an Old Believer, undoubtedly brought a certain sympathy in the attitude of the Nizhny Novgorod entrepreneur to this institution. But the main thing, obviously, was something else. The Volzhsko-Kama Bank was one of the largest in pre-revolutionary Russia; it was rumored that the success of the founder passed on to it.
From a poor tradesman, Kokorev managed to turn into one of the richest, most influential and famous people in Russia. His candidacy was considered for the post of Minister of Finance of the Empire. He was the initiator and organizer of the construction of the world's first oil refinery near Baku. He was a co-founder of such well-known companies as the Russian Society of Shipping and Trade, the Caucasus and Mercury Shipping Company, the Volga-Don Railway Society, etc. He was involved in the development of gold mining, established trade between Russia and Persia, and participated in the development of a project for the liberation of peasants from serfdom. , making a lot of efforts to speed up this event. Kokorev gained great fame as a philanthropist and philanthropist. About two decades before Tretyakov, Vasily Alexandrovich not only opened the first exhibition gallery of young artists, but also systematically supported and developed the talents that appeared in his field of vision. Lay the foundation for the study of national art.
Kokarev founded his next brainchild, the Volga-Kama Bank, in 1870, and in the same year its branch opened in our city. Initially, the bank moved into a building on German Square, but the location turned out to be extremely unfortunate - on the very outskirts, far from business streets, next to a cemetery. After some time, they changed the address and moved across the river to the fair, but the fair only worked one month a year, and the rest of the time the bank branch experienced the same difficulties as in the old place. The bank's move to the Bugrovsky House was ideal from an economic point of view; here, on Rozhdestvenskaya, large deals were concluded and contracts worth millions were signed all year round. In this building, the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the bank successfully existed until nationalization in the revolutionary year of 1917.
House of merchant Pyatov
See the post about the house of merchant Pyatov here
Trading house and bank of Rukavishnikov
Among the iconic buildings on Rozhdestvenskaya Street, one of the prominent places is occupied by the building of the Rukavishnikov Bank, which is listed today at number 23 and was originally built as an apartment building with bank offices. The banking complex was conceived of two buildings, so the second building - the industrial one - was built on the Nizhne-Volzhskaya embankment (now building number 10).Of all the diverse row of houses on the Nizhne-Volzhskaya embankment, the apartment building of Sergei Mikhailovich Rukavishnikov stands out with its unexpected “Gothic” theme surrounded by purely Russian architecture. The house was built in 1911-1913 by the outstanding Russian architect of the Art Nouveau era Fyodor Shekhtel.
The building has a complex silhouette, as it is designed to be viewed from the river. An interesting fact is that it is made in neo-Gothic, although Shekhtel practiced Gothic only in the 90s of the nineteenth century. Rationalism and romanticism are successfully combined here. Vertical, sweeping lines, subordinated to a dynamic upward impulse, give the building a special expressiveness. This is just a stylistic association with Gothic, which helps to reveal the frame structure of the building.
The facade combined motifs of medieval architecture and advanced construction technologies of the early twentieth century, with faceted turrets of different heights, completed with metal caps that form the silhouette of the building. This technique creates a strong motive that evokes associations with a powerful organ and contributes to the perception of the image as a kind of musical work. In this case, this is not a direct copying of the Gothic of the Middle Ages, but a pictorial composition, the author’s fantasy on the Gothic theme.
Organically, this building is one with the Rukavishnikov Bank, the facade of which faces Rozhdestvenskaya Street. The bank was also built according to the design of Fyodor Shekhtel, but a little earlier - in 1908. At that time, Shekhtel refused to use any historical styles and designed the building in the image of rational modernism. Above the main entrance there are allegorical sculptures by Konenkov, symbolizing industry and agriculture.
The Rukavishnikov dynasty of merchants, factory owners and bankers in the 19th century was one of the most famous in Nizhny Novgorod. Over time, their fame acquired an all-Russian scale.
The founder of the dynasty, Grigory Mikhailovich Rukavishnikov, originally from the village of Krasnaya Ramen, Makaryevsky district, Nizhny Novgorod province, was a blacksmith. Having moved to Nizhny Novgorod in 1817 following the fair, he bought several shops and began actively trading in iron. Gradually the number of shops grew, capital increased, and Grigory Mikhailovich built his own ironworks. In 1836, for his activities, he received a medal from the Department of Manufactures and Internal Trade.
After a fire in 1899 in the Rukavishnikovs’ two-story stone house with two industrial buildings on Rozhdestvenskaya Street, they turned to the Construction Department of the city government with a request to repair the damaged buildings. However, the restored old buildings had a very unsightly appearance, and Sergei Rukavishnikov in 1908 turned to the Moscow architect F.O. Shekhtel with a request to develop facade plans for the construction of two buildings instead, whose main facades would face Rozhdestvenskaya Street (the bank itself) and Nizhne-Volzhskaya Embankment (industrial buildings).
The facades were designed in neo-Gothic forms. On the embankment - with powerful frame blades, completed with “pinnacles”, glazing of planes and wall cladding with polychrome ceramic tiles. Colored ceramics were also used in the cladding of the building facing Rozhdestvenskaya Street, in the decoration of which cast iron artistic casting was widely used, including round figures of a worker and a peasant woman, made according to the sketches of the young sculptor S.T. Konenkova.
After completion of construction, problems arose: the new buildings began to put pressure on the nearby Merchant Bank (Rozhdestvenskaya St., 21) and the Kudryashov-Chesnokov Apartment House (Nizhne-Volzhskaya Embankment, 9), cracks appeared in the walls. A special commission headed by architect A.N. was sent to the site. Poltanov. Hastily taken measures helped correct the situation.
Both Rukavishnikov buildings are striking examples of rational modernism. Many consider the Nizhny Novgorod banks of the early 20th century, built in the era of modernism, to be the best buildings in the city. The second half of the 19th century was the period of the greatest prosperity of banking in Nizhny Novgorod: new credit institutions appeared, as well as representative offices of the most famous Russian banks at that time. In 1908, a branch of the Russian Commercial and Industrial Bank, which was one of the largest in Russia, was located in the Rukavishnikov building on Rozhdestvenskaya Street. The Rukavishnikovs were the largest clients of this branch, so in business circles the bank was even called the “Rukavishnikovs’ bank,” and that’s how it went down in history.
We drive across the Kanavinsky Bridge with views of the Fedorovsky embankment and Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment (photo from the car window):
Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment and River Station :
The building of the River Station, built in 1964 according to the design of the architect M.I. Churilin, is very similar to a ship. True, the semicircular rotundas added during the reconstruction of 2002 - 2003 on both sides of the “ship” slightly disturbed these outlines.
We managed to park the car not far from the Nativity Church, so it was decided to first go towards the Kanavinsky Bridge; this section of the street - from Markin Square to Blagoveshchenskaya - will now be the subject of a story.
Rozhdestvenskaya Street- one of the oldest streets in the city, considered the second most important after Bolshaya Pokrovskaya. Its length is a little more than 1 kilometer, but the number of architectural monuments on it is considerable - 35 officially registered today. There are only stone houses on this street, some partially preserved from the 18th century. Recently, during the reconstruction of the street, new monuments have appeared here, or, as they now call it, small urban sculpture, related to the history of this place.
Rozhdestvenskaya Street connects Ivanovsky Congress from the Kremlin walls to the square in front of the Annunciation Cathedral.
View of the street Rozhdestvenskaya from the turn to Kanavinsky Bridge:
On the information board about Church of the Nativity it is written that "...initially the street was called Bolshaya Kozmodemyanskaya after the temple of the unmercenary saints Kozma and Damian (on the site of modern house No. 33). With the construction in 1653 by the merchant Semyon Zadorin of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (above the modern church) it gradually began to be called Rozhdestvenskaya. In During Soviet times, it was renamed cooperative (1924), then Mayakovsky (1940). In 1990, the street's historical name was returned." These were the reversals of fate on this small street, which became one of the symbolic places in the city.
Rozhdestvenskaya Street, one might say, is the same age as Nizhny Novgorod; on the site of the modern street, back in the 13th century there were the streets of Nizhny Posad (accordingly, Verkhny Posad is the upper part of the city). Later, the name "posad" was replaced by "bazaar", this reflected the large role of trade in the city's economy. Rozhdestvenskaya was the main street of the Nizhny Bazaar, located on a narrow section of the bank along the Oka and Volga. Since 1770, there have been great changes in the development of the city, then the first plan for the development of Nizhny was drawn up, including Rozhdestvenskaya Street was rebuilt within the boundaries that we see now, the street began to take on a familiar appearance. A significant innovation of that period was by order of the leading engineer of the city A.A. Betancourt, all newly built houses on this street must be made of stone to prevent the spread of fires.
At the end of the 19th century, the first tram was launched along the street, electric lighting appeared, the roads were covered with asphalt - this was done before the opening of the All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition in 1896, the street became more and more convenient and modern.
The most striking landmark on Rozhdestvenskaya Street and one of the symbols of Nizhny Novgorod - Church of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which is also called Rozhdestvenskaya, or Stroganovskaya. It was built at the turn of the 17th - 18th centuries (1696-1719) at the expense of the famous salt merchant Grigory Dmitrievich Stroganov near the piers and salt warehouses that belonged to him. After the illumination in 1719 by His Eminence Pitirim, Archbishop of Nizhny Novgorod, the church received the name Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary, later it also began to be called by the name of the nearby Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, built in 1653 and destroyed, presumably at the end of the 18th century. Over the years of its existence, the Church of the Nativity has repeatedly suffered from fires and destruction. Now we see it almost the same as it was in the first half of the 18th century, after construction was completed. Today the church was re-consecrated in 1993.
During the Soviet years, the Nativity Church miraculously survived, we owe this to the selfless work of the rector of the church from 1915 to 1934, Father Sergius Weisov. He collected historical documents and photographs, gave entire lectures in the offices of Soviet officials about the cultural significance of the Stroganov Baroque and was able to save the temple from barbaric destruction. In this building, party workers decided to house the city museum of the history of religion and atheism...
At the time of our walk, restoration of the church facades was underway:
According to experts, the external appearance of the temple was severely damaged during restoration in the early 2000s, because the technologies used did not comply with the principles of scientific restoration, and the materials chosen to restore parts were incompatible with each other. Apparently, this is why, after just over 10 years, new renovation work was required.
Church of the Nativity- an example of the so-called Stroganov Baroque, it is richly decorated with white stone carvings and stucco. The church is two-tiered; on the second tier there is an altar, a prayer hall, a refectory and a porch.
There is a legend associated with the construction of the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, very similar to the legend about the blinding of Faster and Barma after the construction of St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, with the only difference that the name of the builder of the Nizhny Novgorod church is unknown.
Above the church on the hillside is a five-tier bell tower with a weather vane. At first it was built separately, but in the second half of the 18th century, a gallery was erected between the church and the bell tower and an entrance to the temple was made from the bell tower.
In the photo above you can see a clock on the bell tower. Now in place of the ancient clock there is a modern mechanism, but around the dial you can see preserved Slavic letters dividing the circle into 17 parts, as it was supposed to be according to the ancient Russian calculation of time. The original clocks were repaired by Russian mechanic I.P. Kulibin, but they were not preserved and where they went is unknown.
In the 60s of the 19th century, the bell tower wanted to repeat the fate of the Leaning Tower of Pisa - it began to tilt catastrophically, and in 20 years it moved as much as 1.2 meters. To stop this process, the upper tiers were dismantled in 1887 and then reassembled.
The fine white stone carvings on the red brick walls of the temple look very picturesque and festive.
Gallery under the bell tower and entrance to the church:
In the passage between the bell tower and the entrance to the church itself, photographs of Stroganov’s buildings hang on the walls:
Inside the church is very small, because it was not for nothing that it was built as a home church for the Stroganovs themselves and their closest friends.
The interior decoration of the church combines the asceticism of whitewashed brick walls and a luxurious wooden carved gilded altar with an iconostasis of the early 18th century. The iconostasis was gilded in 1865.
Currently, the church houses shrines - an ancient icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker; icons with particles of the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov, Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow, Optina elders in a reliquary next to the iconostasis; revered “Sovereign” icon of the Mother of God.
When we entered, a service was going on in the temple. We stood at the entrance for a while, it was inconvenient to walk through and take photos, so we soon left the church; there were very few photos inside.
The white stone details of the facades were repaired many times in the 19th century, and also once at the beginning of the twentieth, in 1912-1913.
We went outside and further admired the white carvings around the windows and columns of the Corinthian style temple.
The domes of the church, located on the cardinal points, were painted green during construction. At the end of the 19th century, they were covered with scales made of sheet iron, like St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, and only one chapter is now simply covered with an iron sheet and gilded.
Near the temple, already on the pedestrian part of the street, there are information boards (I gave an excerpt from one of them above):
Here, before reaching the Church of the Nativity, - monument to the Artist, to the Itinerant artist Vladimir Makovsky:
Once again, hooligans stole the brush from the hands of the sculpture((.
It seems that everything has been restored, however, in some places you can observe historical layers)):
Or a piece of the past will peek out from under the modern superstructure:
And not all yards are exemplary yet)):
This is the courtyard of the main house in the Golitsyn estate, a story about it is below.
Although these courtyards in the very center of the big city are so provincially cute):
And local residents are trying to transform even an ordinary arch into some kind of fantastic art object:
On this section of the street, as well as on the whole of Rozhdestvenskaya, in recent years many cafes and restaurants have opened, serving many cuisines of the world, from Russian to exotic. There is an Italian restaurant and an Asian restaurant nearby:
Red and white house on the right, house number 43, is an architectural monument, the building of the Dobrov and Nabgolts Machine-Building Partnership, built in 1885, architect N.D. Grigoriev. The Dobrov and Nabgolts Machine-Building Partnership produced steam engines for the local flour-grinding industry. This factory building was adjacent to the Stroganov and Golitsyn estates on Rozhdestvenskaya Street, so it was given the façade of a residential building, but from the embankment the building has a more modest appearance.
And the house №45 , part of which now houses an Italian restaurant, is estate of Counts Stroganov, built in 1825-1829, and quite tangentially, but this house is connected with the work of the great poet A. S. Pushkin:
In memory of this event, the wall of the arch is decorated with bas-reliefs and inscriptions, so anyone, even without a guidebook, will know the history of Pushkin’s stay in Nizhny Novgorod.
The story "The Queen of Spades" was written by Pushkin in the same autumn of 1883 in Boldino.
It must be said that along the entire street there is a lot of information about historical objects; on the houses there are both traditional signs and, in some places, modern QR codes for smartphones.
Stroganov Estate, direct descendants of Grigory Dmitrievich Stroganov, with whose funds the Nativity Church was built, designed by St. Petersburg architect Pavel Ivanov. The estate consisted of a three-story house and two small outbuildings.
In the second wing there is the Tyubeteyka restaurant:
Near the Stroganov estate - estate their relatives princes Golitsyn. By the time the Golitsyn princes began building their house, the Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment had already been developed, so the main facade of the Golitsyn estate was turned towards the Volga, and 2 outbuildings overlooked Rozhdestvenskaya. The entire project was developed by the Moscow architect D.I. Gilardi, and the construction was supervised by two Nizhny Novgorod architects - A.L. Leer and G.I. Kizevetter, they were also the authors of the projects for symmetrical wings.
Inner courtyard of the main house in the Golitsyn estate:
In former times, the yard was separated from the roadway by a stone fence and had two entrances.
Eastern wing:
There is now a Thai cafe in the western wing of the Golitsyn estate):
Unfortunately, from the Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment side, the estate of the Stroganovs and Golitsins is not in very good condition:
The odd side of the street ends with a house №49 :
This is the house of Vasily Klimovich Michurina, erected in 1848-1849, architect - L.V. Fostikov, as an apartment building, all the profits from which went to his wife Avdotya Vasilyevna for all her ladylike things and whims). Later, this house housed I.M. Bubnov’s hotel, considered the best in the lower part of the city, which was famous for its table and wines, and Korovin’s transport and stagecoach office.
End wall view house number 49:
Monumental fresco on the wall house number 49:
And a few pictures around. Side view Annunciation Monastery:
Start Pokhvalinsky Congress:
And Blagoveshchenskaya Square in winter:
Kanavinsky Bridge:
On the even side, Rozhdestvenskaya Street ends with a house №46 :
This apartment house of princes Abamelek-Lazarevs, built in 1844-45, architect - A.E. Turmyshev. There is a treasure story associated with this house. When the owners left their house after the revolution, they hid chests with coins, jewelry, gold and silver dishes in a secret place. Some time after the revolutionary events, the house was plundered by looters, but no one found the treasure. And only after a thorough search the cache was discovered by the Cheka workers. Only a small part of that treasure was transferred to the local history museum; the main part disappeared in an unknown direction.
We turn around and go to the beginning of Rozhdestvenskaya Street on the even side. Cute house number 40- apartment house of the Rybinsk merchant of the 1st guild Ivan Nikolaevich Sobolev, built in 1860-1862, architect - Uzhumedsky-Gritsevich.
The house was arranged very functionally: the first floor was intended for retail shops, the second for restaurants, and the third for a hotel. Also in the side buildings there were services, warehouses, servants' rooms and the famous Sobolev baths throughout the city. Now there is a cafe with this interesting sign:
Some classic-style houses on Rozhdestvenskaya have Mediterranean motifs in the form of wrought-iron balconies and flowers on the window sill on the street side; even in autumn it looks very nice:
This house number 28- apartment house of Alexey Borisovich Smirnov, built in 1832 according to the design of the architect I.E. Efimov and served as a hotel:
Again - a restaurant, this time - Italian:
This restaurant is located in house number 26, house of I. Shuvalov - A.K. Heinz, built in 1836 according to the design of the provincial architect I.E. Efimov.
On the odd side - house number 37 with the sign “Bread Products”, this is the former home of the Yesyrevs, famous people in Nizhny with an unusual fate. The Yesyrevs were serfs of the Nizhny Novgorod Ascension Pechersky Monastery, but in 1794 the future mayor Mikhail Yesyrev managed to enroll in the merchant guild. In November 1809, he purchased a plot of land on Rozhdestvenskaya Street from the merchant Perepletchikov; together with his brother Sergei, they owned a small spinning mill and carried out grain trading. The sons of Mikhail Yesyrev - Peter and Stepan - expanded their father’s business, traded bread and salt, and ran a carriage factory in the city. In 1831 they rebuilt their father's old house according to the design of the architect A.L. Leer. The house is an architectural monument of the Classical era.
Opposite the Esyrev house there is a modern sculpture of a young man from the 19th century:
The sign at the feet of the bread seller says that this is a gift to Nizhny Novgorod from the Tyurin bakers. The sculpture was installed in 2013. The charitable traditions of the Nizhny Novgorod merchants continue to this day.
Postal Congress (formerly Uspensky), located between houses No. 24 and 26:
A short walk up this ramp in about 10 minutes will lead to the museum of A.M. Gorky's childhood - Kashirin's house.
At the corner of the Postal Congress in house No. 24 there is a beautiful building - Blinovsky passage:
This former apartment building was built in 1853 by R.Ya. Kilewein, designed by the architect from Pererburg A.K. Brownies for merchants Aristarkh and Nikolai Blinov. Only a small part of the house faces Rozhdestvenskaya, its entire volume is “hidden” and goes deeper, towards Ilyinskaya Street.
In the 19th - early 20th centuries, there was so much in Blinovsky Passage - warehouses, shops, offices, a restaurant, a hotel, and a telegraph office. It is interesting that even now in house No. 24, according to the well-known reference portal, there are 30 different organizations - including a hostel, several cafes, restaurants, a wedding salon and an advertising agency, wholesale companies and a post office, such continuity over time).
In front of Blinovsky Passage there is Markin Square, a view of it from Ilyinskaya Street (photo taken during another autumn walk):
View of the square from the Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment (winter photo):
Markina Square arose on this site in the late 30s of the 19th century after the demolition of one of the houses of the merchant E. Sofronov (later, during the Soviet years, it was named in honor of the commissar of the Volga military flotilla Nikolai Markin). And in the 19th century, this square was the social and business center of the Lower Bazaar.
Monument to the heroes of the Volga military flotilla, opened in 1977:
Nowadays, Markina Square is also often the center of fairs and folk festivals, and so it was on the day of our walk - the Vinegret food festival was held here, however, we arrived towards the end of this event.
But on the square there were still tents with products from local producers - from bread, cheeses, sausages to live crayfish)), souvenirs, and samples of agricultural products in their natural form were also presented)):
In 2012, on Markina Square, on the initiative of one of the local advertising newspapers, an original "The bench of love and fidelity", which the newlyweds immediately chose for attaching locks)):
The bench is interesting for its concave shape of the seating area; it is impossible for two people to sit on this bench without pressing closely together)).
On the corner of Markina Square, closer to Rozhdestvenskaya, a retro-style telephone booth was installed in May 2014:
From this payphone you can call any city number for free.
Walk along the street Rozhdestvenskaya, to the monument to Minin and Pozharsky, we will continue in ...
References:
- "Kucherova T.V. Rozhdestvenskaya Street" - http://www.opentextnn.ru/space/nn/nb/?id=145
-"Objects of cultural heritage"- http://oldnn.info/ru/nasledie/obj
- "Old Nizhny: the history of Rozhdestvenskaya Street"- http://progorodnn.ru/news/view/77971l
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01. Nizhny Novgorod, museum exhibition near the Conception Tower of the Kremlin. There is also a monument to Peter I, who once visited Nizhny Novgorod.
02. Nizhny Novgorod, exhibition "About the wheel, wheels and cars"
03. and porridge for guests
05. Nizhny Novgorod, exhibition "About the wheel, wheels and cars." Old carriage.
06. Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment
07. Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment 9/3
08. Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment 12
09. Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment
10. Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment 13, Children's art school No. 1
11. Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment, Markin square
12. Unpretentious Nizhny Novgorod. Some long-term construction on the embankment greatly spoils the view, I hope all this will be removed by 2018.
13. Nizhny Novgorod, Alexander Nevsky Cathedral on the so-called “Strelka”. Behind it, a little further away, you can see the construction of the stadium for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
14. Nizhny Novgorod, river station, Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment
15. Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment 16 (?). Nizhny Novgorod Exchange building
16. Nizhny Novgorod, houses around Markin Square
17. Nizhny Novgorod, Markin Square. The square is named after the commander of the Volga Flotilla Nikolai Markin.
18. Nizhny Novgorod, Markin Square, monument in honor of the Heroes of the Volga Flotilla and River Station
19. Nizhny Novgorod, Markin Square
20. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Rozhdestvenskaya
21. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Rozhdestvenskaya
22. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Rozhdestvenskaya
23. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Rozhdestvenskaya
24. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Rozhdestvenskaya, excursion tram. We wanted to take a ride (the tram tour lasts about an hour), but we didn’t have much time.
25. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Rozhdestvenskaya, excursion tram.
26. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Rozhdestvenskaya
27. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Rozhdestvenskaya, houses near Markina Square
28. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Christmas sculpture of a boy selling bread and buns.
29. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Rozhdestvenskaya, sculpture by the artist.
30. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Rozhdestvenskaya
31. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Rozhdestvenskaya
32. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Rozhdestvenskaya, 45. A.S. has been here. Pushkin
33. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Rozhdestvenskaya.
34. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Rozhdestvenskaya, 34. Fragment of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary
35. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Suetinskaya 23
36. Nizhny Novgorod, bell tower of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary
37. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Nativity, Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary, better known as the Church of the Nativity.
38. The church was built in 1696-1719 at the expense of the merchant Grigory Dmitrievich Stroganov.
39. In Soviet times, a decision was made to destroy the church, but the rector of the temple, Father Sergius Weisov (from 1915 to 1934), having collected historical documents and photographs and having given more than one lecture in the authorities’ offices on the cultural significance of the Stroganov Baroque, managed to preserve the temple. It was decided to house the city museum of the history of religion and atheism in the building. The temple was rededicated on June 3, 1993, and is now a functioning church.
40. Nizhny Novgorod, Kanavinsky Bridge over the Oka
41. Nizhny Novgorod, slope with walking paths near the Azimut hotel.
42. Nizhny Novgorod, Nativity Church and River Station
43. Nizhny Novgorod, Kanavinsky Bridge over the Oka River at sunset
44. Nizhny Novgorod, view of the city and the Volga from the Fedorovsky embankment
45. Nizhny Novgorod, River Station
46. Nizhny Novgorod, Fedorovsky embankment, pedestrian bridge over the Postal Congress
47. Nizhny Novgorod, view from the pedestrian bridge, the backyard of Nizhny
48. Nizhny Novgorod, building on Markin Square
49. Nizhny Novgorod, Kanavinsky Bridge over the Oka River at sunset
50. Nizhny Novgorod, Fedorovsky embankment, pedestrian bridge over the Postal Congress
51. Nizhny Novgorod, Assumption Church (on Ilyinskaya Mountain). The stone Assumption Church was built by the merchant Afanasy Firsovich Olisov. Construction was completed in 1672. In 1715, the church was damaged by fire and was restored.
52. Nizhny Novgorod, chambers of the merchant Afanasy Firsovich Olisov, built in the 1670s (!)
53. Nizhny Novgorod, lane. Steep
54. Nizhny Novgorod, lane. Steep
55. Nizhny Novgorod, lane. Krutoy, 9. House of the merchant I. P. Poyarkov.
56. Nizhny Novgorod, chambers of the merchant Olisov and the Assumption Church
57. Nizhny Novgorod, Assumption Church. Nearby is the place where there was an estate in which the famous Russian self-taught mechanic I. Kulibin was born and lived (not preserved)
58. Nizhny Novgorod, chambers of the merchant Afanasy Firsovich Olisov in the last rays of the sun
59. Nizhny Novgorod, Church of Elijah the Prophet (Ilyinskaya Church), st. Ilyinskaya, 9
60. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Ilyinskaya, 18. Ministry of Education
61. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Dobrolyubova
62. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Dobrolyubova 4A
63. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Dobrolyubova, Church of the Myrrh-Bearing Women
64. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Dobrolyubova
65. Nizhny Novgorod, st. Dobrolyubova
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Hello everyone and welcome to the blog “Easy to climb”.
Today we will have another walk around the glorious Nizhny Novgorod. Rozhdestvenskaya Street is a unique piece of history that has been preserved in our city. If you compare Rozhdestvenskaya Street with, then both have a lot of “historicity”, but the atmosphere is completely different. Pokrovka is noisy and cheerful, while Rozhdestvenskaya is quiet and calm. Old, black and white photos will definitely complement today’s story, but in addition to this, I also dug up a work of art with views of Rozhdestvenskaya Street. Make yourself comfortable and don't forget tea and buns). Rozhdestvenskaya also suffered the fate of renaming. In Soviet times, the street was named in honor of the poet Mayakovsky (popularly Mayakovka).
In the 19th century, these places were called Nizhny Posad, and a little later Nizhny Bazaar.
A walk along Rozhdestvenskaya Street traditionally begins from National Unity Square. It was here that Kuzma Minin called up the people's militia. Relatively recently, in 2005, a copy of the famous sculpture from Red Square was installed on the square.
Progress has reached Nizhny Novgorod. Almost every attraction has a QR code. You can scan it on the spot and read information about any object.
The large, red building on the right side of the sculpture is the famous Bugrovskaya flophouse. Remember Maxim Gorky's play “At the Lower Depths”? This is exactly what the writer described in his famous work.
The Ivanovo Tower is visible in the photo above. Millionka was located near it; the poor flocked here in search of work. In the shelter you could get bread and boiling water every day.
In the old photo you can see the rules of behavior that are written right on the facade of the building: “Do not drink vodka. Don't sing songs. Be quiet."
I understand that the photographer captured the fight.
The overnight stay these days.
Immediately behind the Bugrovs’ shelter, under the walls of the Kremlin, you will see an old elevator. The funicular connected two tram lines: Rozhdestvenskaya and Bolshaya Pokrovskaya. No electrical miracle was used in those days. The elevator operated by gravity. A special container was placed in each carriage. If the carriage was at the top, then the container was filled with water and, at the same time, in the carriage that needed to be raised, the water was drained. The upper carriage was lowered, raising the lower one.
That's how it was.
To the left of the sculpture of Minin and Pozharsky is the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist. The temple has a difficult fate. At one time there was a club and a motorcycle school here. Under Soviet rule, the bell towers and domes were demolished, and the façade was disfigured.
In 1994, the church began to be restored and was consecrated in the fall of 2005.
Somehow, Rozhdestvenskaya Street in this place used to look a little different, although the building on the right in the photo is quite recognizable.
By the way, local residents call this place (the intersection of Rozhdestvenskaya and Zelensky congress) Skoba.
And this old photograph was taken from the opposite angle, from the Ivanovo tower of the Kremlin.
Now we will deviate a little from the route and look at the neighboring street - Kozhevennaya. I want to show you the famous “Tea House” or the house with columns.
At first it was the apartment building of the merchant Perepletchikov. The building received praise from Emperor Nicholas I “for the beauty of the facade.” Then the building was put up for auction and was purchased by the steamship owner Sirotkin, who provided the building for a teahouse. As Maxim Gorky wrote: “People could sit in warmth, they were given a portion of tea for two kopecks, a pound of bread, they organized a library, installed a piano...... Doctors organized a free outpatient clinic here.
We return to Rozhdestvenskaya. On the left side of the street we see a beautiful building (house no. 6). This is a former apartment building.
The house was built by the same merchant Perepletchikov, only later he transferred it to the city in his will.
The facade of the building did not always look so formal. The reconstruction was carried out for the All-Russian Exhibition of 1896. This building later housed various offices, the first public bank in Russia, the technical department of Avtostroy and even a cinema named after. Mayakovsky.
Nowadays, on the ground floor of the former apartment building there is a very good art cafe “Bezukhov”. The cafe is interesting for its interior, and literary readings are also held here periodically.
On this side of the street there is an unusual sculpture that always attracts the attention of passers-by.
This is a kind of reminder of the Nizhny Novgorod salt scam.
In the 17th century, Nizhny Novgorod became the main salt warehouse in Russia. After the decree of Peter I on the state monopoly on the sale of salt, a salt office was established in the city. Corruption already existed in those days). Merchants slowly sold off government salt, bypassing the state treasury, and blamed the shortages on the flood. The warehouses were located next to the river and could easily be flooded. The scam came to light when Alexander II abandoned the monopoly on salt and replaced it with an excise tax.
The Ministry of Finance ordered that the salt be sold as quickly as possible, and then it turned out that there was nothing to sell. It was a big deal. The head of the treasury chamber, Verderevsky, was convicted and publicly executed.
Why galoshes? There is a legend that the father of the merchant Fyodor Blinov, who was involved in the scandal, gave his son cast iron galoshes and ordered him to “wear them once a year, in memory of the offense.”
On the right side of the street there are two gray facades - houses No. 19 and 21.
Unfortunately, I don’t know anything about house No. 19. But house No. 21 was once an apartment building of A.S. Platina. It is possible that both houses belonged to the same owner.
The Rukavishnikov complex of houses is adjacent to Zaplatin’s house. A house with cast figures immediately attracts attention. The figures represent symbols of industry and agriculture.
On the other side (facade towards the Nizhnevolzhskaya embankment) the building takes on the shape of a neo-Gothic style. In fact, this is a complex of two buildings designed by one architect - F. Shekhtel.
The Rukavishnikov surname is very famous in the city. This is a famous dynasty of merchants and bankers. Rukavishnikov’s bank was located in house No. 23. And these days, on the ground floor of the house with the figures there is a French restaurant “Gavroche”, where my husband and I once tried frog legs. Before tasting the delicacy, I pestered the waiter for a long time with questions about the place of residence of the frogs). I was assured that the frogs were real French, and not toads from a Russian swamp. Oh well.
The next building that deserves attention is the house of the merchant Pyatov. The main facade is decorated with eight columns, and on the frieze you can see wreaths of glory and flowerpots.
Nowadays, the building houses the Pyatkin restaurant with Russian cuisine. The restaurant owners tried to preserve and restore the interior of the merchant's house. Oh, what fried potatoes with porcini mushrooms... Highly recommend!
At this point, Rozhdestvenskaya Street is crossed by Vakhitov Lane. Across the alley is the house of the merchant Bugrov (No. 27).
In Soviet times, a comedy theater was located here, and now it is the Japanese Center.
As the sign on the house says, it is a typical example of eclecticism. The letter “B” on the medallion reminds us of the former owner of the building.
Opposite the Bugrovs' house there is another apartment building, only this time it belongs to the merchant Akulina Panina (yellow facade).
At first the house was two-story, but at the behest of the owner, a third floor was added. As a rule, shops were located on the ground floor, and the second and third floors were rented out to tenants.
We slowly approached Markina Square. On the left side stretches the facade of the building with carved windows. This is a passage by the Blinov Brothers.
What was there: shops, offices, hotels, warehouses and restaurants. Fortunately, the huge areas allowed. In 1901, from here, from Permyakov’s restaurant, Maxim Gorky was escorted into exile.
The same passage by the Blinov brothers, only many years ago.
And now we will once again deviate a little from the route, explore Markin Square and take a walk to the River Station.
In the summer there is a fountain, but the photographs were taken in early spring and therefore the area looks a little unpresentable).
Notice the white arch? Want to get your dose of electric vitamins?
The principle of operation is simple: two people must touch the metal plates on the poles, and then they need to touch each other. The circuit will close and the galvanometer will show the strength of your emotions. Couples in love simply kiss under the arch, recording the result).
The River Station building looks like a ship. To be honest, I've never been inside. I even do not know why….
In summer, pleasure and cruise ships depart from the pier, but in early spring the station looks deserted.
From the pier you can clearly see the Strelka (the confluence of the Oka and Volga) and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.
We return back to Rozhdestvenskaya Street and continue our walk.
On the façade of the building one can easily read the inscription from the past - “Hleboproduct”.....
….., and the picture is completed by a boy with gingerbread.
A local artist sits nearby, slowly adding touches to an already completed painting.
Here we come to the Stroganov Church, an example of Russian Baroque.
In fact, the name of the temple is different - in the name of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but since the Stroganov merchants built the church, Nizhny Novgorod residents call the church Stroganovskaya or Rozhdestvenskaya.
Take the time to climb up the street and examine the temple from all sides.
In 1722, Peter I visited Nizhny Novgorod. On his 50th birthday, the emperor attended a service in the Stroganov Church, after which he ordered it to be closed. Divine services in the temple were resumed only in 1727. It is not known for certain why Peter I made such a decision, but there is one legend associated with the icons. As if Grigory Stroganov bought up the icons for his church, ordered by Peter I for the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg, persuading him to paint new ones for the emperor. Peter I recognized the icons and became angry. We will never know if this is true or false.)
This building on the right side of the street used to be the building of the Dobrov and Nabgolts plant, which produced steam engines. But you can’t tell by looking at it. The appearance is quite presentable and the building looks more like a residential building.
Near the former building of the plant there are two estates - the Stroganov barons and the Golitsyn princes.
Please note that the entrance to the Tyubeteyka teahouse is squeezed between the two buildings. If you are not comfortable with Uzbek cuisine, be sure to check it out. The food here is very tasty.
There is an interesting commemorative inscription and bas-relief on the façade of the building. Literally - “ On September 2, 1833, A.S. visited Nizhny Novgorod. Pushkin. On Rozhdestvenskaya Street he saw S.V.’s house. Stroganova, daughter of Princess Golitsyna, who served as the prototype for the “Queen of Spades”.
It is with this estate that the birth of the idea for the story “The Queen of Spades” by A.S. is associated. Pushkin.
Our walk is nearing its end... I present to you another opportunity to compare a modern photo with a look from the past.
Almost the same look. The domes of the Church of the Nativity are clearly visible.
We went to Blagoveshchenskaya Square and Kanavinsky Bridge.
The last house on Rozhdestvenskaya Street (yellow) previously belonged to the Abamelek-Lazarev princes. The two-story mansion had an iron sales office on the ground floor, and living quarters on the second. After the revolution, the owners hastily left the house, but at the same time managed to hide family valuables in a hiding place. During a search of the mansion, treasures were discovered. There was so much to see here: chests with coins, gold dishes, and various artistic treasures.
Up there is the Fedorovsky embankment, a great place for walking. In the evening the embankment is beautifully illuminated.
Right across the road is the Annunciation Monastery.
If you are interested in old photographs of Nizhny Novgorod, then welcome to antique photographs. First of all, the resource will be of interest to Nizhny Novgorod residents who know the city well.
I wish you pleasant walks around Nizhny Novgorod. Oksana was with you!
* when preparing the article, material from the guide to Nizhny Novgorod from the Decom publishing house was used.
