Nizhny Novgorod a hundred years ago

The art album "Nizhny Novgorod 100 years ago" introduces the reader with Nizhny Novgorod at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. Thanks to the work of the initiator of the Russian journalistic photojournalism, a member of the Russian photographic society M.P. Dmitriev (1858-1948) and his contemporaries, we can see paintings of the life and life of the old Russian province.
Nizhny Novgorod by the end of the 19th century became one of the largest in the Russian Empire. Water and railway transport tied it with the capitals and ports. Plants, mills and shipyards were built. The fair, transferred from the Makaryevsky Monastery, increased momentum and contributed to the development of industry, trade and international economic ties. In 1896, Nizhny Novgorod was the first of the Nestolic cities was elected venue for the All -Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition, which became the largest in the history of Russia. The appearance of the city changed. The first tram appeared on the territory of modern Russia, the new theater building, the new dressed bridge, two ground funicular and many buildings remarkable in beauty, including the Nikolaev Theater on Bolshaya Pokrovskaya.
The beauty of the Volga expanses, the futuristic architecture of the XIX century, noisy squares and shady lanes - all this is the artistic album "Nizhny Novgorod 100 years ago"