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The House of Peter I

Peter I was the Tsar and the Emperor of All Russia from 1689 to 1725. He was the first Russian tsar to visit European countries, and many cities both there and in Russia. One of the cities that Peter I visited was Nizhny Novgorod.
In Nizhny Novgorod, Peter stopped twice. For the first time, when the tsar announced a military campaign in 1695, and, heading along the Volga to Azov, he stopped on the way in a white-stone house, its owner was merchant Efim Chatygin. Peter arrived there within a week. Then this house was called “The House of Peter I”. The second time the emperor visited it 25 years later. He came to Nizhny Novgorod to visit the grave of Kuzma Minin. In those days, it cost more to build a stone house than a wooden one. Such buildings were considered very prestigious, and perhaps that is why the Tsar chose it. Then the house belonged to different people, mostly merchants. The owners have changed several times.
This building stands on a high place at the beginning of the Pochainsky exit, which connects the upper and lower parts of Nizhny Novgorod. From its windows you can see the ancient walls of the Kremlin. Chatygin’s two-storeywhite-stone house looks fascinating from the embankment.
The house of Peter I is one of the oldest monuments of civil architecture in the capital of the Volga region. It gives an idea of the stone residential buildings of the Nizhny Novgorod suburb in the XVII century. The house soon lost its usual appearance after unsuccessful restoration work, but nevertheless it managed to preserve the authentic atmosphere of those times. Now it is an object of cultural heritage.