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Nizhny Novgorod
View of the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Nizhny Novgorod is called the third capital and the âpocket of Russiaâ. The city was founded in 1221 by Vladimir-Suzdal Prince Yury Vsevolodovich as a frontier fortress, but after transferring the biggest fair in the country here, it became one of the main shopping centers of Russia. There were legends about the wealth and prosperity of Nizhny Novgorod, and its stone Kremlin of the 16th century was never yielded to the onslaught of the besiegers.
The city has preserved many unique monuments of history, architecture and culture, which led UNESCO to include Nizhny Novgorod in the list of 100 cities of the world of world historical and cultural value. The peculiarity that distinguishes it from other historical cities of the country is that the Lower is in a very convenient place to get here by water, and the rare Volga cruise does not include it in its program.
The lower one boasts over 600 exceptional historical and architectural monuments. In addition, there are many museums here, among which the museum complex dedicated to Maxim Gorky, who spent his childhood here, is particularly notable. The city even bore a name in honor of the writer in the period from 1932 to 1990.
In the photo, bright sights: the Cathedral in the name of the Holy Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky, the stadium and the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The five-headed Christmas Church (Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary) with a bell tower is one of the most beautiful in the city. A rich merchant and industrialist Dmitry Stroganov, who lived at the turn of the XVII-XVIII centuries, built many churches and other buildings with his own money. At the same time, all churches have a very distinctive, recognizable style: a mixture of Moscow baroque with traditional church architecture.
Nizhny Novgorod church was started to be built in 1696, but because of the fire, it was possible to complete the work only by 1719 - Stroganov himself did not live to see it, his wife completed the work. The legend connects the history of the temple with the name of the national inventor Ivan Kulibin, a native of Nizhny Novgorod. By a fifteen-year-old boy, he was able to set up a complex clock mechanism mounted on a church tower. At the beginning of the XIX century, the mechanism was lost, in 1879 a new clock mechanism was installed, made by German craftsmen. In Soviet times, it was kept in the museum, and in 2005 the clock was restored and re-installed on the bell tower. This is a mechanical watch that is winding up manually, they beat every 30 minutes with a single blow to the bell.
In Soviet times, the church was about to be destroyed, but its abbot managed to explain the uniqueness of the building and the historical and architectural value of the Stroganov Baroque. So a museum of atheism has opened here. Now the church is active. At the time of shooting in the cathedral were carried out restoration work.
Nizhny Novgorod
View of the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Nizhny Novgorod is called the third capital and the âpocket of Russiaâ. The city was founded in 1221 by Vladimir-Suzdal Prince Yury Vsevolodovich as a frontier fortress, but after transferring the biggest fair in the country here, it became one of the main shopping centers of Russia. There were legends about the wealth and prosperity of Nizhny Novgorod, and its stone Kremlin of the 16th century was never yielded to the onslaught of the besiegers.
The city has preserved many unique monuments of history, architecture and culture, which led UNESCO to include Nizhny Novgorod in the list of 100 cities of the world of world historical and cultural value. The peculiarity that distinguishes it from other historical cities of the country is that the Lower is in a very convenient place to get here by water, and the rare Volga cruise does not include it in its program.
The lower one boasts over 600 exceptional historical and architectural monuments. In addition, there are many museums here, among which the museum complex dedicated to Maxim Gorky, who spent his childhood here, is particularly notable. The city even bore a name in honor of the writer in the period from 1932 to 1990.
In the photo, bright sights: the Cathedral in the name of the Holy Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky, the stadium and the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The five-headed Christmas Church (Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary) with a bell tower is one of the most beautiful in the city. A rich merchant and industrialist Dmitry Stroganov, who lived at the turn of the XVII-XVIII centuries, built many churches and other buildings with his own money. At the same time, all churches have a very distinctive, recognizable style: a mixture of Moscow baroque with traditional church architecture.
Nizhny Novgorod church was started to be built in 1696, but because of the fire, it was possible to complete the work only by 1719 - Stroganov himself did not live to see it, his wife completed the work. The legend connects the history of the temple with the name of the national inventor Ivan Kulibin, a native of Nizhny Novgorod. By a fifteen-year-old boy, he was able to set up a complex clock mechanism mounted on a church tower. At the beginning of the XIX century, the mechanism was lost, in 1879 a new clock mechanism was installed, made by German craftsmen. In Soviet times, it was kept in the museum, and in 2005 the clock was restored and re-installed on the bell tower. This is a mechanical watch that is winding up manually, they beat every 30 minutes with a single blow to the bell.
In Soviet times, the church was about to be destroyed, but its abbot managed to explain the uniqueness of the building and the historical and architectural value of the Stroganov Baroque. So a museum of atheism has opened here. Now the church is active. At the time of shooting in the cathedral were carried out restoration work.