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Daily Life and Entertainment at the Fair

In: The Great Russian Fair

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  • Anne Lincoln Fitzpatrick

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During the first half of the nineteenth century, before the development of railway and steamboat transportation, a trip to Nizhnii Novgorod was a long and tiresome undertaking. For merchants coming from Siberia, the Urals or the lower Volga, the overland journey could require weeks of arduous travel by wagon or coach. Merchants coming to the fair from Siberia often sent their goods ahead at the beginning of the winter and began their own journeys to the fair a month or two before the ceremonial opening of the great market.1 Wealthy merchants reportedly paid notoriously high rates for overland transportation, driving prices up to such a degree that smaller traders had to resort to peasant-operated relays or use cheaper, less-frequented routes.2

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  • Anne Lincoln Fitzpatrick, 1990. "Daily Life and Entertainment at the Fair," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Great Russian Fair, chapter 5, pages 171-201, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-20640-7_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-20640-7_6
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