Russia, "the Great Bear," whose part in the war brought on internal strife and revolution which robbed Czar Nicholas of his throne, traces its history back for more than ten centuries, when the Norse invaded the territory and founded Veliki novgorod, for many years one of the chief Russian cities.
"Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights"
Kelly Miller
You find plenty of it at the Leipziger Messe, that historical fair that used to be as important to Western Europe as Nijni novgorod is to Russia and the East.
"Home Life in Germany"
Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
Why, there were the market at Nijni novgorod, and the Arab merchants with their camels, and the Chinese with their blue trousers and bamboo staves.
"Old Peter's Russian Tales"
Arthur Ransome