These pictures of Nizhny Novgorod taken during the 1890-1900s show how difficult life of the poor was at that time.
The residents of a flophouse.
The district of Nizhny Novgorod where the ragged, tramps, loaders and ship’s workers dwelt.
In front of the Bugrov flophouse.
Waiting for work.
A working artel (a cooperative association of craftsmen living and working together).
Flour trade.
Inside a house of diligence.
Orphans.
A market of old clothes and things.
The stall of a junkman.
Collecting money for struggling against tuberculosis.
Cab drivers near the bridge across the Oka.
Ivanovsky Descend.
A railway station. Before the arrival of a train.
In a lobby of the State Bank.
