Route Features:
1. Completely pedestrian
2. Nearest parking - Rozhdestvenskaya street near the house 17. The parking lot has dedicated dedicated parking spaces. places for people with disabilities, marked with the sign .
3. Route selection - taking into account pavement (asphalt pavement preferred). Smooth descents and ascents, sidewalk entrances, flat observation decks.
4. Not on the route toilets, adapted for MGN, so its time is limited.
National Unity Square
Monument to Minin and Pozharsky
If you were in Moscow, then they saw the same monument on Red Square. It was originally intended for Nizhny Novgorod, but at the beginning 19 in. Moscow, severely damaged during the Napoleonic invasion, took the monument of herself.
Already in our days, Nizhny Novgorod City Hall of Moscow was donated a copy monument and installed at the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist. Right here, at the church of the Nativity of John the Baptist, the hero Minin urged Nizhny Novgorod residents to donate money for militia weapons.
The monument depicts Minin and Prince Pozharsky, which being professional military helped Minin to direct the fighting militia. The statues are made in taste start 19 V., in antique style. Prince The sculptor portrayed Pozharsky in the clothes of a Roman soldier, Kuzma Minina - in Russian clothes, but both – barefoot, headless. Thus, He retreated from historical truth in order to achieve artistic effect. After all in this form in 1612 g. in public could seem like crazy, but not so respected people, like Minin and Pozharsky.
From here begins Rozhdestvenskaya Street - Nizhny Novgorod City 19 in. Here there were branches of the largest Russian and foreign banks, offices, luxury stores, expensive restaurants and baths. Wherein, how strange, V close proximity to this showcase of success and prosperity, most towers of the Kremlin was located "Miloshka" – neighborhoods of the urban poor, sadly famous for their taverns, brothels, overnight houses.
Bugrovskaya rooming house
Such, eg, Bugrov's doss house - place, where are the poor people could get free accommodation, a piece of bread and boiling water. It was built and maintained one of the richest merchants of Nizhny Novgorod - Nikolai Bugrov - in memory of his father. The famous writer Maxim Gorky was impressed by the visit to the overnight stay at home wrote his famous play "At the bottom"
Bosyatskaya tea "Pillars" (Tannery, 11)
At the initiative of Gorky, not far from the doss house was opened tea room for the poor (money was donated by the richest people of Nizhny Novgorod). Behind for a small fee people could get hot tea here (but not a drop of alcohol), read a newspaper or a book from the institution's library. Arranged for visitors free performances and even medical consultations. On the wall of the tea room an inscription was made, declared alcohol a poison.
The people called the tea house "Pillars" (because of the columns, decorating the facade).
House of Perepletchikov (Christmas, 6)
IN 1867 year at the hotel, located in this building, stopped by Lewis Carroll, author of world famous books about Alice. He visited the Nizhny Novgorod Fair, and left a review about the hotel in his diary: ""Truly robber place, Although, without a doubt, best in town. The food was very good, everything else is very bad.".
Salt office building (Christmas 8-10), Cast iron galoshes
Salt has long been a strategic product in Russia salt was the universal preservative, allowing to prepare for the future vegetables, fish, meat. Mining, shipping, storage of salt was a matter of state importance. Nizhny Novgorod also had state salt warehouses. This funny monument reminds of the so-called "salt scam" – grandiose fraud, which was revealed in Nizhny Novgorod at the end 19 in. It turned out, What officials of the salt office secretly sold state-owned salt to Nizhny Novgorod merchants at an incredibly low price. They wrote off the shortage in the warehouse to the annual flood, washing away warehouses and dissolving salt. The merchants guessed, What participate in waste, but bought stolen salt. When the fraud opened, a huge scandal erupted. Merchants escaped punishment, donating large sums to charity. But one of them, the father gave a pair of galoshes, made of cast iron. Every year, on the anniversary of the trial son had to put them on and wear one hour, not to forget in the future merchant's honor.
Then you should move along the even side of the street.
Rukavishnikov Bank - Christmas, 11
Heir to a famous merchant family, Sergei Rukavishnikov was notable for his indefatigable passion for
construction. In particular, this unusual appeared on Rozhdestvenskaya
building, lined with light ceramic tiles. Its façade is adorned with sculptures of a peasant woman and
working. They symbolized agriculture and industry.. After the revolution 1917
g. images of working people – workers and peasants became a favorite topic for
sculptors. They appeared everywhere. And many didn't even know, that these two
the sculptures were installed by order of the capitalist Rukavishnikov.
Bugrov's House - Rozhdestvenskaya, 27
This house belonged to Nikolai Bugrov, one of the richest people not only in Nizhny Novgorod, but also Russia. He leased the building to the Volgo-Kamsky Bank. Bugrov himself was a regular client and an influential member of the accounting and loan committee of this bank for many years..
Lyrical digression:
Founder of the famous the merchant dynasty of the Bugrovs, Peter Bugrov was a simple barge hauler, who managed break out into people, despite, that he was illiterate. Thanks to its extraordinary enterprise and mind, he managed to become the largest construction contractor in Nizhny Novgorod.
His son Alexander inherited and expanded his father's business. And the greatest success was achieved by the grandson Nikolai. His called the uncrowned king of the Lower Novgorod. On the stock exchange, he was considered the main, at ritual tea parties in the hall exchanges sat at the "million dollar" table. To Finance Minister Witte, as well as to Nizhny Novgorod Governor Baranov, addressed to "you".
Bugrov struck contemporaries, that he made all his calculations in his mind, did not lead any accounting books, carried all important documents in the pockets of his clothes
In personal life the millionaire was extremely unhappy - he buried three wives one after another, who died young. Becoming a widower for the third time, no longer get married in church could. Every year a new mistress appeared in his house - a beautiful young girl, to whom, after a year of "service", he gave a house as a dowry and chose a husband from among their employees. So a whole village appeared on the Seima River, where did the former live Bugrov's passions with their husbands.
Blinovsky Passage - Rozhdestvenskaya, 24
This building is the great-grandfather of modern shopping malls. Title Passage (from French "passage") described the essence of his inner devices - wide gallery, on both sides of which there were entrances to individual stores. This is how most shopping malls are organized today..
When the building of the Passage appeared at the end of the 19. on this street, many residents found him "indecently tall" and complained, then it ruined the look of the entire area.
Already in the 2000s, this house became a place of pilgrimage for lovers mysterious. Internal security cameras captured, like empty at night a translucent figure moves in the hall, presumably female. Youtube video has been viewed countless times. Nominated versions, whose ghost can visit the arcade. Unfortunately, service staff security was able to unambiguously establish, that the cameras recorded the flight of a piece polyethylene film in jets of hot air from a powerful heater. So way, the passage got its own ghost.
Fountain on Sq. Markina
Once in the center of the square there was another fountain - "Fountain benefactors." Nizhny Novgorod, Although and stands at the confluence of two great rivers, suffered for centuries from lack of drinking water. Water from city wells was considered undrinkable. Therefore, for water with buckets went to the river. Only in 19 in. water supply in the city. It was not our usual plumbing, that is pipe, connected to every house. This there were just two fountains - one on the mountain (still stands on the square. Minina), another Here, under the mountain. The fountain looked like a round cast-iron bowl. It listed merchants' names, donated money for the construction of the fountain. Also at the fountain was indicated, that it is transferred to the inhabitants of the city in perpetual gratuitous possession. Unfortunately, during the revolution, the fountain disappeared without a trace. Currently collecting funds for the restoration of the fountain of benefactors in its original form.
River Station
Nizhny Novgorod - the center of river tourism, starting points and completion of many river cruises. The building of the river station is made in the form ship. true, impossible to say, in which direction it swims - "nose" and "stern" look the same.
Exchange (Nizhnevolzhskaya emb., 16)
This building was intended for the Stock Exchange - the place, Where big deals, mainly for hiring boats. Besides, in 19 century it was a club for the richest entrepreneurs in the city. Merchants on Thursdays gathered here for ritual tea parties. For every kind of activity here a separate table was provided - a rope table, salt table, fish table, bread table. And only the richest, without distinction of occupation, sat down to hotel table - millionth. Imagine the feeling of a merchant, earned his first million and first place at the millionth table.
Stroganov Church (Cathedral Holy Mother of God) – Christmas, 34but
This magnificent temple is built at the end 17 – beginning 18 in. on funds of the merchant Grigory Stroganov (companion of Peter I). Peter called Stroganov "my wallet" – for the willingness to finance all the projects of the king.
The design of the temple contains unusual details. – vane under the cross in the form of a flag (a tribute to fashion for everything marine, characteristic of Petrovsky era) and vintage clock.
According to legends, when the church was completed, Grigory Stroganov ordered to blind the master who created it. He wanted to know for sure, that another church, equal to this one in beauty, will not appear in Russia in the near future. However, another the legend says, that the master turned out to be not simple himself: escaped from the stroganoff servants, climbed to the dome of the church, turned into a black crow and flew away. but, repeating these legends, let's not forget, that the church was finally completed in 1719 g. already the widow of Stroganov – he himself had died by that time.
Much more interesting than the other, historically proven fact. IN 1722 g. the church was visited by Peter I and immediately ordered to close it. The emperor's anger is understandable. He found out icons, ordered by him for the Peter and Paul Church to the artist Caravak – Stroganov bought them in secret from the sovereign. The church has been closed for three years., all the way death of the monarch.
This church is also remarkable, which gives visual idea of the nature of merchant piety. Beneath the magnificent temple practical Stroganov ordered to arrange premises for storing the main source of your wealth – year.
