The Kremlin Nizhniy Novgorod

... is to serve as a "museum"....hm. Anyway, other than that, we saw the neighboring church inside the Kremlin and everything else inside the walls of the Russian fortress. On Sunday we went to see a monastery about 40 minutes outside of Kazan. It was ...

... to leave it! Next morning we explored the city and that was plenty of time as the city consists of one main pedestrian street and the Kremlin. The whole city centre is built on a hill and the rest of the city is going up and down the hills which make it ...

... the years but nowhere near as massive a scale as in the old Soviet Union. My somewhat negative impressions of Nizhniy Novgorod were doubtless affected by the poor accommodations we had in a very rough part of town.  I'm glad, however, that I got to ...

... were everywhere, getting pictures taken left, right and centre! Peter then decided he wanted to go to some monastery about 1km from the Kremlin. Unfortunately it wasn't on the map so we wondered around for ages looking for it but to no avail. Pete was ...

... mark on my map. I'm having more fun traipsing around the inner Moscow suburb trying to buy supplies than I ever could going to the Kremlin again. I've seen enough bloody churches to last a life time. And palaces. And all types of architecture. Searching ...

... . We got on at 10pm and arrived at 7am so everyone slept pretty much all the way. When I arrived in Nizhney I was gonna walk to the Kremlin. I couldnt make any sense of the map in the LP and walked aimlessly for a while. A woman in a tram pulled up and ...