Nizhny Novgorod

This stop will explain why the huge Fair church was built on flood-prone ground and was not moved.

The church will introduce the route to the history of a state commission and the master who completed another's work.

This point will connect the view of the Volga with the choice of a site where one monument replaced another.

The descent will show the price the city leader paid for a major postwar construction project.

This tower is needed to distinguish the sixteenth-century fortress from the nineteenth-century museum reconstruction.

The cast-iron inscription opens into a history of water, fires, and merchants’ expenses.

The final stop will test the city legend with a letter from the person named as a witness.

Here, the city crossing became part of a military railway bypass.

This stop will show how trading shops, the governor's apartment, and city services fit under one roof.

Here, the militia's campaign connects with the later fate of the monument and the vanished cathedral.

The merchant's palace will become the starting point for a discussion of how a private house was transformed into a public museum.

Here begins the story of a seasonal trading town that needed a church of its own.

Here, the port warehouses reveal the origins of their unusually intricate metal structures.

The final stop will bring the whole route together around this low cape’s chief advantage: access to two rivers.

Here it will become clear why the walking path appeared after private houses were removed from the Kremlin wall.