The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

NIJNI-NOVGOROD. 399paint as many as 600 a week of these works, which are hawked all over thecountry, and even as far as the Balkan peninsula.This industry is very curious,owing to the extreme division of labour, in which even children take part.Suzdalia also produces rude coloured woodcuts, which are widely diffused, whencethe term Suzdakhtina, which has become synonymous with " bad taste." Someof these coarse engravings, however, are very valuable, their caricatures againstthe "popes" and ckinovniM resembling the wood engravings of the fifteenthFig. 209.Nijni-Novgorod.Scale 1 : 120,000.Iff fw**nfIf'ZjL- J rif%century aimed at the clergy in the west of Europe. Their publication has oftenbeen prohibited by the authorities. Ivanovo and Shuya, both on tributaries of theKlazma, are the great manufacturing towns of the government of Vladimir.NlJNI-NoVGOROD.Trade, even more than conquest, has imparted a certain cohesion to the variousraces inhabiting the region of the Middle Volga, whose mutual interestsnecessitated the establishment of some common mart, where they might assembleto exchange their produce. The famous fair, now held at Nijni-Novgorod, andwhich is the most important not only of Russia, but of the world, has often beenremoved from one place to another, leading a sort of nomad existence like thepeoples frequenting it. Tradition and the chroniclers tell us that during theearliest period of Russian history it was held in the capital of the Bulgarian