. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across ng time. The monks of Makarieff controlled the fair until 1751, whenit passed into the hands of the Government, and has remained there eversince. The fair at Makarieff was held on low ground near the town. Ow-ing to an inundation in 1816, the Government restored the fair to Kijni,and decreed that it should be held annually between the 27th of July andthe 22d of Sej)tember. The ordinary population of JSTijni is about fortythousand; two hundr
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across ng time. The monks of Makarieff controlled the fair until 1751, whenit passed into the hands of the Government, and has remained there eversince. The fair at Makarieff was held on low ground near the town. Ow-ing to an inundation in 1816, the Government restored the fair to Kijni,and decreed that it should be held annually between the 27th of July andthe 22d of Sej)tember. The ordinary population of JSTijni is about fortythousand; two hundred and fifty thousand merchants, laborers, and others 280 THE BOY TEAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. come to the fair, so that for two months of tlie year nearly three hundredthousand people are assembled here. How are they all accommodated with lodgings and food V one of theyouths asked. The permanent town of Nijni Novgorod, said the Doctor, is sepa-rated from Fair-town, if we may so call it, by the River Oka, whichhere joins the Volga. The fair is held on a tongue of land between theVolga and the Oka, and Fair-town and Xijni proper are connected by. NIJNI NOVGOROD DURING THE FAIR. bridges of boats. It is a regular town or city, built for the purposes oftrade. It has its governor, police force, fire brigade, and all the parapher-nalia of a city, and the Government collects by means of a tax about fiftythousand dollars for the support of the organization. Then it is a city with a busy population for two months of the year,and a deserted town for the other ten V Exactly so, was the reply; Fair-town at Nijni in season and outof season will remind you of the difference between Coney Island or LongBranch in July and in January. THE SIGHTS OF NIJNI NOVGOROD. 281 Well drop the subject till to-morrow, said the Doctor, and withthis suggestion the conversation was suspended. On their arrival at Nijni, where they expected to remain two or threedays, the party went to the hotel as already
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