Makaryev's Fair ( Nizhny Novgorod Fair later) was the greatest Trade Fair in Imperial Russia.

Makaryev's Trade  Fair (Makarevskaya Jarmarka) was the Greatest Trade Fair in Russia held annually every July near Makaryev Monastery on the left bank of the Volga River from the mid-16th century to 1816. Following a massive fire in 1816, it was moved to Nizhny Novgorod, but for some decades thereafter it still was commonly referred to as Makariev Trade  Fair. It attracted many foreign merchants all over the World.

This is SketchUp model of the main building of NNTF.

The Nizhny Novgorod (former Makarevchkaya)Trade Fair  (NNTF) (1824).

I will quote below what  was written  about   Nizhny Novgorod Fair in 19^th century   by well-known American writer Suzanne Massie  in her remarkable book “ Land of Firebird - The Beauty of Old Russia”. Mr.  Irwin Well   wrote about this book in Chicago Tribune “ It stuns the reader with the richness, variety, and beauty of East Slavic creativity.”  

Anfisa Antonovna Kramskaya started to service at the Central Bank of the Credit Unions System of the Russian Empire on Nevsky Prospect, 59.

My bride Miss Anfisa Antonovna  Kramskaya  graduated from Bestuzhev Courses in 1913 and started to work in St. Petersburg in  the Central Bank of  the Credit Unions System on  Nevsky Prospect 59.

This is Google Earth 3D model of 59, Nevsky Prospect  before reconstruction in 2010.
This bank was a part of the Credit Unions System of the the Russian Empire.

The  Credit Unions System of  the Russian Empire started to work on 29 March 1864.

The total turnover for the first year was 20.5 million rubles. In the  next sixth year of the  activity  of the   Credit Unions System of the Russian Empire (1869) turnover reached 1.069.66 million rubles.

My bride Miss Anfisa Antonovna Kramskaya graduated from Bestuzhev Courses in 1913 and started to work in Commercial Bank in St. Petersburg on Nevsky Prospekt 59.

       My bride Miss Anfisa Antonovna  Kramskaya  graduated from  Bestuzhev Courses in 1913 and started to work in Commercial Bank in St. Petersburg on Nevsky Prospekt 59.

      The Bestuzhev Courses  were the largest and most prominent women's higher education institution in Imperial Russia. 

The institute opened its doors in 1878. It was named after Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin, the first Director. The most famouse  professors  of the Bestuzhev Courses were   Alexander Borodin, Faddei Zielinski, Dmitry Mendeleyev, Ivan Sechenov, and Sergey Platonov. A building for Bestuzhev Courses on the 10th line of Vasilevsky Island  was built in 1885 on a draft of Academician of  Architecture A. Krasovsky. 

Bestuzhev courses in St. Petersburg. 1878-1918