This category brings together articles about people and concepts associated with the Nizhny Novgorod elite — professional, intellectual, and administrative. Among them are Georg Kiesewetter, the first city architect of Nizhny Novgorod, and Kashchenko, an eminent psychiatrist and zemstvo public figure who headed the Nizhny Novgorod psychiatric hospital. Also covered here is the concept of Krasnobay ("smooth talker") — in its several senses current in Nizhny Novgorod usage.