Christmas Street - a box with a secret

Individual walking tour with a personal guide

We will go to the beautiful, old and recently revived street of the city. It is on Christmas opens the true story of the Lower, as a “pocket of Russia”. After all, it was with the transfer of the Makariev Fair to Nizhny Novgorod that the inconspicuous street began to turn into its pearl.

Christmas street is a special place of Nizhny Novgorod - it preserves the merchant spirit of the city. This is a street-casket, where, like jewelry, there are interesting buildings of different styles and eras. According to the latest data, there are 35 architectural monuments, that is, almost every house. For the most part, the style is dominated by eclecticism - a favorite direction of merchants of the XIX century. Large arched openings, high showcases, intricate and bright forms of houses, which were built with a "single facade" (without gaps). The street on which there were shops, offices, hotels, restaurants, banks, stock exchange, marinas ...

Christmas was the main street of the Lower Bazaar, once posada, and ran from the Ivanovo Tower of the Kremlin to the Annunciation Monastery. It can be called the oldest part of the city. Parallel to Christmas were piers, and only later, in 1837, appeared the Lower Volga embankment.

We will begin our journey from the square near the monument to Minin and Pozharsky. Yes, we have one in Moscow, and it has an amazing history. Let’s talk about the Ivanovo tower, from which the Christmas street originates. Let’s imagine how in 1612 Kozma Minin appealed to the people at this place.

Let’s find out where the bottom was, which Gorky described in his play “At the bottom”. We will see a lodging house, hear interesting stories - about Miloshka on the Lower Bazaar, about the Burlatsky stock exchanges, where they were hired every spring; about the salt scam that literally shook the city; about the Fair and its organizers; about merchants who glorified not only the city, but also the country, and built the most beautiful houses here; about the construction of a water supply line; about the prototype Countess from the "Lady of Spades" who lived on this street; and of course, about the main decoration - the Christmas Church.

The street is like a box with a secret – we will open it and look at it step by step.

You will take wonderful photos for memory and will be able to shine your knowledge in front of friends.

You should dress for the weather.

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