The most beautiful and interesting monument of architecture of the nineteenth century in the Nizhny Novgorod is a manor Rukavishnikov, part of the Nizhny Novgorod State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve.

The original two-storey stone mansion on the Upper Volga embankment belonged to the merchant S.Vezlomtsevu, but in the 1840s for debt departed owner steelworks M.G.Rukavishnikovu. Later, in 1870, the heir - S.M.Rukavishnikov - turned the house into a magnificent palace in the Italian style. To implement such a grandiose reconstruction was invited architect P.S.Boytsov. The new project of the architect includes: the construction of the third floor, annexe in the form of wings, grand marble staircase, as well as stucco decorations and paintings. The facade was richly decorated with stucco figures of caryatids in the window piers and Atlanta, supporting the balcony of the second floor. All the rooms of the mansion are decorated wall and ceiling painted with bas-reliefs, lined with artistic parquet floors. In 1877 the house Rukavishnikov was considered the richest in Nizhny Novgorod.

Since 1924, the mansion eminent merchants located museum, later entered the Nizhny Novgorod State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve. Today, the mansion has collected more than 320 thousand valuable exhibits, which are the domestic and foreign heritage. Among the richest collections presented items from private collections merchant DV Sirotkin, V. Burmistrova (Rukavishnikova), nobles Abamelik-Lazarev, as well as Nizhny Novgorod photographer AO Karelin. The objects of the show are the famous and architectural features of the house. During the tour you can find biographical information about each of the inhabitants of the merchant palace. In addition to the history of the famous halls of Nizhny Novgorod in the museum presented the departments of numismatics, ethnography, archeology and nature.

Main House Rukavishnikov is an object of cultural heritage, beautiful monuments of civil architecture of the nineteenth century, a historical landmark in Nizhny Novgorod.