Myshkin. Small city in large tourism. Condition, problems, promotion, prospects

There are a lot of old Russian cities in Central Russia: Sergiev Posad and Aleksandrov, Rostov the Great and Pereslavl-Zalessky, Bezhetsk and Yuryev-Polisky ... Many of them reacted ruthlessly: the great in their old Russian past, they gradually fell into decay, lost their Economic and political significance, were abandoned in the Soviet period and almost finished off perestroika and wild Yeltsin capitalism. They escorted the 20th century with broken dusty streets, numerous church ruins, empty store shelves and a modest variety of collective farm market. But small cities of Russia and each in their own way are being revived!
The city of Myshkin, the most famous example of such a transformation. This is all the more noteworthy that all 70 years of Soviet power he was under suspicion - as a particularly dangerous “counter -revolutionary element”, and even turned out to be unclenched from the category of cities to the village. And yet he rebelled from dust and ruins like a bird of phenix.
How did you manage to make a miracle on the Volga residents of Myshkin? Who are these people who have preserved and revived their unique city, nicknamed before the revolution Little Petersburg? Where is Myshkin in the 21st century? And can his example become a guiding star to other small cities of Russia?
This wonderful book of local historian and writer Vladimir Grechukhin is an epic of Russian perseverance, stamina, patriotism, love for his small and great homeland. After reading it, you begin to love the old Russian town in absentia, on the Volga and strive in Myshkin with all your soul