The Great Russian Fair: Nizhnii Novgorod 1840–90 by Anne Lincoln Fitzpatrick

By Anne Lincoln Fitzpatrick

An exam of Russia's greatest 19th century alternate reasonable, one of many significant centres of her inner trade and exchange with the East. diverse features of the reasonable, resembling the trade of products, the kinds of investors current and the social and cultural lifetime of the reasonable, deliver to gentle Russia's social and financial evolution. The influence of railroad building, the advance of a countrywide industry, the evolving function of the Russian kingdom in trade and the slowly rising sophistication of the service provider "soslovie" are subject matters which give a contribution to the author's exam of alternate at Nizhnii.

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While piecemeal attempts to influence the development of the internal market continued to characterise government policy even in the immediate post-reform years, the loss of the Crimean War resulted in tremendous pressures to enact significant reform and to orchestrate a programme of modernisation. These pressures culminated in the Great Reforms of the 1860s, in the railway building boom of the 1870s and in concerted state efforts to stimulate industrialisation, to develop a more comprehensive banking system and to encourage the economic endeavours of the commercial and industrial soslovie.

Eight bridges crossed the canal to facilitate communication between the central 28 The Great Russian Fair and outlying regions of the fair. A feature of the fair which invariably impressed West European visitors was the sewage system. Underground gaHeries ran along both sides of the gostinyi dvor, and it was here that the public toilets were located. This area was constantly cleansed by water from the adjacent canals and by a strong current of fresh air. 84 THE OUTER COURTS Despite the expansiveness of the gostinyi dvor, the fair's central core could not begin to accommodate aH the traders who brought their goods to market.

He found thaI before the 1880s, the series on deliveries to Nizhnii tluctuated in much the same way as did that for the number of workers (an indicator of growth in factory production), the volume of cotton imports and the value of English exports. 13 His statistics show les! correspondence between trends at the fair and the grain harvest, anc he downplays the effect of the harvest on Russian industrial outpU! 141t should be noted, however, that at the Nizhnii Novgoro( Fair many observers feIt that the success of the harvest had a grea impact on textile sales and even affected the situation of the Vrall iron plants.

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