A City on Glass Plates
A tour through the articles of the Encyclopedia of Nizhny Novgorod
A century and a half ago Andrey Karelin and Maxim Dmitriev photographed Nizhny Novgorod on glass plates. The camera stands where the photographer stood and shows what he saw: cathedrals, descents and river crossings that are gone — and a funicular that came back.
The route in text: every stop, its photographs and links to articles
All 41 photographs by Karelin and Dmitriev — in an encyclopedia article
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You have visited ten places from which Karelin and Dmitriev photographed the city: the cathedrals of the kremlin, Blagoveshchenskaya Square, the descents and the crossing to the fair.