Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin
Description:
Built with the participation of Italian architect Pietro Francesco, it incorporated the best features of Russian and European fortresses of that time.
Border fortress and military-economic center. Tatar-Mongolian invasion and troubles. The place where the famous Nizhny Novgorod militia was formed, and the main trading city with the largest fair in Europe. The transformations of Catherine II, Paul I and Nicholas I. Anti-aircraft guns on towers during the Great Patriotic War, and the longest staircase in the USSR. All this is the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin.