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A suitable route to get to know the city, admire the merchant houses, feel the spirit of old Nizhny, take beautiful photos. On the guided tour along the pedestrian Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street, you will learn about the history of the street, the people who lived here, and the houses that have seen a lot. I will tell you how the tsars visited here, what Ivan Kulibin gave to Catherine II, why A.S. Pushkin came here, and what the goat is doing here. You will see the most unusual monument, the commune house, and a copy of Chkalov Staircase.
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Bolshaya Pokrovskaya is the central pedestrian street of the city with bronze sculptures, street musicians, and artists. It is the oldest street in the upper part of Nizhny Novgorod. It boasts merchant houses of rare beauty. We will see: - the majestic building of the City Duma; - the Drama Theater building, which is compared to the Grand Opera in Paris; - the State Bank building, resembling a medieval castle; - the Noble Assembly in the classical style, where the Manifesto on the abolition of serfdom was read; - Sverdlov's workshop; - the monument to Dobrolyubov; - the trading house of Chesnokov and Kudryashov, comparable in beauty to the Rukovishnikov Palace on Verkhnevolzhskaya Embankment; - the place where Gorky began his трудовой activity as a "boy among people" and where he worked as a journalist; - the puppet theater and others; - Minin and Pozharsky Square. You will learn about famous people associated with this street (I.P. Kulibin, A.S. Pushkin, F.I. Chaliapin, Y.M. Sverdlov, S.M. Gorky, E.A. Yevstigneyev), about great Russian photographers, how and thanks to whom the play "The Inspector General" by N.V. Gogol and the novel "Mother" by M. Gorky appeared, and other interesting facts and unexpected stories. The tour will end at Maxim Gorky Square.
For reference only. The program may change.
Wear comfortable shoes, weather-appropriate clothing, an umbrella if necessary, and drinking water if needed
Start location
Minin Square, by the fountain
End location
near Gorky Square
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