Tour to Gorodets

A trip to Gorodets is a trip to the most ancient and most legendary city of the Nizhny Novgorod region. According to one version, it was founded by Yuri Dolgoruky in 1152, becoming a border fortress, an outpost, a gathering place for squads of Russian principalities. In Gorodets, in the Feodorovsky Monastery, the life of the great commander Alexander Nevsky ended. Even the worst ruins of Gorodets could not prevent the desire of the Russian people to live here. Every time they restore it, no matter what.

And what masters lived in Gorodets! No wonder city crafts are known throughout the country: the construction of ships, city printed gingerbread, gold embroidery, city painting and wood carving.

If you love Russian provincial beauty, if you like the atmosphere of an ancient merchant city of the 19th century, then this is a trip for you.

In the city there are small and very original museums. There is a samovar museum and a gingerbread museum, there is a museum of goodness, where household items, clothes and furniture of the XIX-XX centuries are exhibited. In the museum complex "City of Masters" you will be told about urban art crafts, will hold master classes on them. And in the tea room you will be treated to tea prepared according to ancient Russian recipes.