The collection of the Volgograd Regional Museum of Local History includes more than ten different images showing Gogol Street. These include pre-revolutionary and Soviet postcards and photographs. They show all kinds of transport: horse-drawn carriages, trams, cars, as well as the buildings that can no longer be seen in Volgograd.
The exhibit was printed at “Scherer, Nabholz & Co”. It was established back in the 1860s, when a Baden national, Martin Nikolaevich Scherer, and a Swiss national, Georgy Ivanovich Nabholz, purchased the Moscow photographic firm of Carl August Bergner.
This postcard shows a view of Gogol Street from Aleksandrovskaya Square, where the hotel “Stolichnye Nomera” belonging to Vasily Fyodorovich Voronin was located at that time. Gogol Street was originally called Yelizavetinskaya Street. It was renamed in 1909, a year before the monument to the writer was erected.
It was the first and only street to be renamed in pre-revolutionary Tsaritsyn, and it was also on the list of the three streets that were named after prominent figures in Russian culture.
Gogol Street started from Aleksandrovskaya Square, nowadays Ploshchad Pavshykh Bortsov, and ended at the railway station of the Gryaze-Tsaritsinskaya railway at the intersection with Voronezhskaya Street (nowadays Kommunisticheskaya Street).
Numerous hotels were located there: “Natsionalnye Nomera”, “Moskva”, “Nikonov Nomera”, and “Nomera Lux”. The latter was situated in a four-story building with a triangular roof.
The hotel building had the only elevator in Tsaritsyn and also housed a restaurant. On the left was a house with a tower, where premises were let for the shop of the Rostov merchants “Artemiy Yablokov and Sons”, the People’s House, a pharmacy, a ready-made dress shop, and the Mutual Credit Society.
The postcard shows the fence of Gogol Square around Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. The buildings on the right-hand side housed various merchants’ shops. None of the houses on the side of the street where the hotel stood have survived to this day, and a new Alexander Nevsky square has been laid out there.
The exhibit was printed at “Scherer, Nabholz & Co”. It was established back in the 1860s, when a Baden national, Martin Nikolaevich Scherer, and a Swiss national, Georgy Ivanovich Nabholz, purchased the Moscow photographic firm of Carl August Bergner.
This postcard shows a view of Gogol Street from Aleksandrovskaya Square, where the hotel “Stolichnye Nomera” belonging to Vasily Fyodorovich Voronin was located at that time. Gogol Street was originally called Yelizavetinskaya Street. It was renamed in 1909, a year before the monument to the writer was erected.
It was the first and only street to be renamed in pre-revolutionary Tsaritsyn, and it was also on the list of the three streets that were named after prominent figures in Russian culture.
Gogol Street started from Aleksandrovskaya Square, nowadays Ploshchad Pavshykh Bortsov, and ended at the railway station of the Gryaze-Tsaritsinskaya railway at the intersection with Voronezhskaya Street (nowadays Kommunisticheskaya Street).
Numerous hotels were located there: “Natsionalnye Nomera”, “Moskva”, “Nikonov Nomera”, and “Nomera Lux”. The latter was situated in a four-story building with a triangular roof.
The hotel building had the only elevator in Tsaritsyn and also housed a restaurant. On the left was a house with a tower, where premises were let for the shop of the Rostov merchants “Artemiy Yablokov and Sons”, the People’s House, a pharmacy, a ready-made dress shop, and the Mutual Credit Society.
The postcard shows the fence of Gogol Square around Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. The buildings on the right-hand side housed various merchants’ shops. None of the houses on the side of the street where the hotel stood have survived to this day, and a new Alexander Nevsky square has been laid out there.
