Souvenirs

You can by souvenirs in the shop “The Khudozhestvenniye Promisli” (“The Artistic Handicrafts”). You can’t help buying picturesque Khokhloma and bright Gorodets painting or Polcv- Maidan toys and wonderful painted matreshkas. If you prefer fabric to wood, you’ll admire magic laces and various embroidered things. You’ll also find here goods made of leather, stone, bone, clothes embroidered in gold and smart guipure.

Genuine connoisseurs of smart things of the last century are recommended to visit antique shops in Bolshaya Pockrovskaya street.

At every museum and news kiosks you’ll find the postcards with the sights of Nizhny Novgorod. In various shops you’ll be able to buy glasses, pens, note-books with Nizhny Novgorod symbols. If you’d like something from the masters immediately you should go along Bolshay Pockrovskaya Street. Here between the shop “The Khudozhestvenny Salon” (“The Artistic Saloon”) and “The Khudozhestvenniye Promisli” (“The Artistic Handicrafts”) Nizhny Novgorod painters their own paintings, goods made of half- precious stones and leather, toys and lapti (genuine Russian shoes). You can also purchase paintings in the shop “The Artistic Saloon” and in the gallery “The Russian Age” (The Russki Vek).