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      If it rains: merchant houses and Gorky's apartment

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 2 km🍽 2📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Short dashes between three houses: the Rukavishnikov estate, the Sirotkin mansion with European painting and the apartment where Gorky hosted Chaliapin.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
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        🖼 Rukavishnikov Estate
        Верхне-Волжская наб., 7
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        A lavish mansion of the wealthy Rukavishnikov merchant family with a grand staircase, a ballroom and merchant interiors.
        Opens at 10:00; ticket office until 17:15.
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        Rukavishnikov Estate
        © Dmitriy Markov · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The mansion was built in 1875–1877 to a design by the Moscow architect Pavel Boytsov.
        • Today it is the main building of the Nizhny Novgorod State Museum-Reserve.
        • The estate stands on the site of the Maly Ostrog fortifications — perhaps the wooden Georgievskaya Tower was here.
        • Live music sounds in the house again: concerts and 19th-century dance classes are held here.
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        🖼 Art Museum: foreign art (Sirotkin House)
        Верхне-Волжская наб., 3
        🎟 ticket
        The Neoclassical mansion of mayor Sirotkin on Verkhne-Volzhskaya: European painting and interiors with painted ceilings.
        The neighboring mansion — 3 minutes under an umbrella.
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        Art Museum: foreign art (Sirotkin House)
        © Olga-lisenkova · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The house was built in 1913–1916 to a design by the Moscow architects, the brothers Leonid, Viktor and Alexander Vesnin.
        • The client was Dmitry Sirotkin, a first-guild merchant and mayor of Nizhny Novgorod.
        • Inside, oak parquet and a staircase, columns, stucco and ceiling paintings have survived.
        • In 1916 Sirotkin opened a school of artistic woodworking in Semyonov with his own money.
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        ☕️ Lepi Testo Dumpling House
        ул. Минина, 12
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        Hand-made pelmeni and vareniki (dumplings) at Minina, 12.
        🍴 A hand-made dumpling house opposite the Rukavishnikov estate, from 8 a.m.; kids' menu available. What to order: "Taste of Russia" pelmeni, "Blueberry Nights" vareniki (sweet dumplings), tom yum pelmeni.
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        🖼 Gorky Museum-Apartment
        ул. Семашко, 19
        🎟 ticket
        The apartment where the already famous Gorky lived with his family in 1902–1904; Feodor Chaliapin stayed here as a guest.
        Gorky's apartment and the "Chaliapin" room; closed on Monday and Thursday.
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        • The museum opened in 1971 in the house where Gorky lived from 1902 to 1904.
        • By then he was a leading author of the Moscow Art Theater, and his books had been translated into 16 languages.
        • Feodor Chaliapin lived in the "Chaliapin" guest room from 17 August to 7 September 1903.
        • In 1904 Gorky left his family and left his native city.
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        🍽 Mitrich Steakhouse · 🧸 play area
        Ковалихинская ул., 8
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        Finish with a steak or dessert at Mitrich, which has a children's room.
        🍴 A meat restaurant on Kovalikhinskaya with a children's room and kids' menu. What to order: steak, niçoise salad with tuna, a chocolate sphere for dessert.

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