Text: James Black Photo: Evgeny Arsentiev Visit Nizhny // visitnizhny.ru There was a time when people called Nizhny Novgorod the third capital of Russia. After Saint Petersburg being the cultural capital and Moscow being the political capital, Nizhny, as we locals call it, was the wallet. The reason behind this was the trade fair, it was even international back in Tsar times, and numerous wealthy merchants that left their mark on Nizhny.Было ...

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