The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

NIJNI-NOVGOBOD. 401The district where the fair is held, entirely constructed during the presentcentury, is laid out with the regularity of an American town.The central bazaar,nearly a mile long, and over half a mile wide, is lined with rows of shops, inwhich the wares are disposed according to their nature and place of origin. Wethus pass from the hardware or woollen to the fur or tea quarters, and from thel'avlovo to the Alexandrov or Tula avenues. A palace where are held the grandFig. 211. — Xijni-Notgokod : Tomb of Minis in the Crypt of the Church of the Transfiguration.entertainments, an Orthodox cathedral, an Armenian church, and a Tatar mosqueare grouped in the "Fairfield," which is continued eastwards by vast warehouses,granaries, fish and hardware depots, overflowing into a long island of the Oka.The whole quarter is enclosed by a main sewer in the form of a horseshoe ;butthe three thousand shops of the central bazaar having proved insufficient for thevast quantities of merchandise annually brought to the fair, three thousand more,