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paint as many as 600 a week of these works, wliicli are hawked all over the 

 country, and even as far as the Balkan peninsula. This industry is very curious, 

 owing to the extreme division of labour, in which even children take part. 

 Suzdalia also pro:luc9s rude coloured woodcuts, which are widely diffused, whence 

 the term Siizdahldiiut, which has become synonymous with " bad taste." Some 

 of these coarse engravings, however, are very valuable, their caricatures against 

 the "popes" and chinocniki resembling the wood engravings of the fifteenth 



Fig. 209. — NiJNi-NovGOKOD. 

 Scilo 1 : 120,000. 



1 Mile. 



century aimed at the clergy in the west of Europe. Their publication has often 

 been prohibited by the authorities. Ivanovo and Shuya, both on tributaries of the 

 Klazma, are the great manufacturing towns of the government of Vladimir. 



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Trade, even more than conquest, has imparted a certain cohesion to the various 

 races inhabiting the region of the Middle Yolga, whose mutual interests 

 necessitated the establishment of some common mart, where they might assemble 

 to exchange their produce. The famous fair, now held at Nijni-Novgorod, and 

 which is the most important not only of Russia, but of the world, has often been 

 removed from one place to another, leading a sort of nomad existence like the 

 j)eoples frequenting it. Tradition and the chroniclers tell us that during the 

 earliest period of Russian history it was held in the capital of the Bulgarian 



