Nizhniy Novgorod Off The Beaten Path

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This is another quite funny monument / sculpture in the pedestria area of Bolschaja Pokrowskaja : a young mother and her son, who is playing with a small steam-boat-toy. The most funny part of this sculpture is the fact that you will be able to take a seat next to the lady and her son, on the same bench.
My 3-5th photoraph are showing another funny sculpture : a postman on his bike, right at the beginning of the pedestrian area and next to the monument to "Lenin and the Marxists"

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This is another great church, not more than just 200 meters from the Kremlin-walls, when you drive to it from the port-area, and about halfway to the upper Kremlin-walls.
Our bus had stoped there closeby, but the tourguide went into the other direction and I had to follow her in order not to loose the group. Maybe the interior is not so special, many of these churches are also still in a terrible condition inside, even though they are totally restored from the outside.

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When walking through Nizhny Novgorod you will pass by a lot of interesting buildings and most of them are in good condition and well restored. On the other hand this city was off-limits for foreigners for more than 50 years and you will hardly find any infos about it or maps of it in guidebooks printed before 1990. I also did not see as many hotels as in other cities in Russia.

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"House of the children" is the name of this great Art-Nouveau"-building not far from the Kremlin. It has an interesting facade with nice mosaiques, but once again we did not have enough time to get any closer, so I could just take a few pics from a large distance.

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Kuzma Minin is a very popular russian hero, you will see his statues in many cities of Russia, the most popular one maybe in front of Saint Baisil's cathedral on Red Square.
Here in Nizhny Novgorod he used to live as an ordinary butcher before he started to support Prince Dimitry Pozharsky and helped him to gather an army in order to defeat the polish army,that had invaded Russia.
After the fights he returned to his job as a butcher and you will see at least 3 monuments of him in Nizhny Novgorod :
1 & 2) in the Kremlin, next to the cathedral
3 & 4) outside of the Kremlin
5) in front of the church of John the Babtist

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This university-building is to be found in the pedestrian-area of Bolschaja Pokrowskaja , not far from the lovely Art-Nouveau-building of the Bank of Russia. The building has an interesting facade and a nice park with some shady benches in front of it.

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The lady with the mirror is an interesting sculpture in the pedestrian area of Bolschaja Pokrowskaja and it is obviously one of the favorite places for the local people. Almost no lady, who would not take a look into the mirror of that lady as well, while passing by...

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You will find this interesting obelisk in the backside of the Kremlin, close to the monument for the victims of WW II. I dont remember the meaning of it, our tourguide just said a few words about it and seemed to considder it not so very important.
Much more interesting for me was the celtic cross in my last photograph, but our tourguide was not able to give any further explations about it and unfortunately we could see it also just from a wide distance.