“Even now this Market stands neglected and closed. All that remains from it are forged gates with the letters “B” and “B” and the old inscription “Trading House”. Once they said that during the prosperity of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair this was the place , where world prices for flour were dictated. In Soviet times, it was famous for the fact that in the territory of this market in the depths, on the left, if you enter from the embankment, there stood, as if hidden from prying eyes, a beer stall, where “mama” traded from the very opening Zoya,” and in the back room her husband received an empty wine container…”