Quiet Lower (urban outskirts of the 19th century)

"Time machine in Nizhny Novgorod" - to move a hundred meters from one of the noisy central squares and find yourself in the city of the late 19th century, among wooden houses - a hundred years ago, Russian cities were two-thirds wooden.

“We live on the outskirts of the Lower, in one of those streets that open at one end into wastelands and fields, the others go to the city; our apartment is on the upper floor. From my windows you can see the church a few hundred steps away, then the gardens and houses of Nizhny, and in the distance a strip of Oka and Zaoksky meadows and fields, wrote Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko about this place. And in the next house lived Maxim Gorky.

The street where Fyodor Chaliapin, Anton Chekhov, Leonid Andreev, Garin-Mikhailovsky walked is the color of the Russian intelligentsia. What was a picturesque suburb is now the city center, which has preserved the spirit of a bygone era.

And also (don’t be surprised!) is about the famous Nizhny Novgorod street art. Not the one about ruining houses, but the one about saving the historical environment. Unexpectedly? All the more interesting!

Take a slow walk through the quiet streets. Hear the history of the city, the history of houses, the history of people who once lived here.