Episode 11: The Great Fair of Nizhnii Novgorod. The Tale of Avgustin Betankur

01/09/2021 31 min Temporada 1 Episodio 11

                    Episode 11: The Great Fair of Nizhnii Novgorod. The Tale of Avgustin Betankur

Listen " Episode 11: The Great Fair of Nizhnii Novgorod. The Tale of Avgustin Betankur "

Episode Synopsis


In 1817, Agustín José Pedro del Carmen Domingo de Candelaria de Betancourt y Molina (known in Russian as Avgustin Betankur) surveyed the site of one of his most important engineering projects, the future Nizhnii Novgorod Trade Fair. In this episode, we move from Betankur's impressive architectural designs to daily life at the fair, tracing the ribaldry, revelry, and rampuctiousness that made this fair one of the marvels of the Russian Empire.
Source: A. Lincoln Fitzpatrick, The Great Russian Fair: Nizhnii Novgorod, 1840-90 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1990).

More episodes of the podcast Tales from Imperial Russia