Yes, having come to this time in some decline, the temple was largely restored. In the Arkhangelsk Cathedral there are kept, as shrines, some church things, the antiquity of which dates back to the time of Yuya II, and a priestly vestment, according to tradition, from the clothes of the great princes of Nizhny Novgorod and therefore called “Princely”. The cathedral also contains sarcophagi, under which lie the descendants of the great princes of Nizhny Novgorod, who were already in the service of the Moscow kings.
The main shrine of Vremlya is the Transfiguration Cathedral. Originally built in 1850 by Grand Duke Konstantin Vasilyevich, this temple in KhUP VK fell into such ruin that a new one was erected in its place, which in turn was very dilapidated by the 80s of the present century. In your present view of the temple erected in 1834. In its basement floor, completely devoid of light, there is a church with three altars: the middle one in the name of the Kazan Holy Mother (in memory of the deliverance of Russia from Lithuania in 1612); the right one is in the name of St. Dmitry Soluneky (in memory of Prince Pozharsky) and the left one is in the name of St. Cosma and Daman (in memory of Minin); at the right aisle there are the tombs of the independent great princes of Nizhny Novgorod, at the left - the tombs of Minin and the seven saints of Nizhny Novgorod.
Regarding the monument to Minin and Pozharsky, we said above, as for the governor’s house and the Arakcheevsky building, we believe that what we have done about them by mentioning them is sufficient.
Opposite Vremlya, on the beautiful Blagovshchenskaya Square, is located the Blagovshchensk Cathedral, founded in KhTU VK by the Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich in the name of his patron, which is why the temple was initially called the church in the name of Dmitry Thessalonica. In its present form, the cathedral was built in 1696 by Voinov.
Of the other temples, we will mention the recently built Resurrection Church, the ancient Geormevo Church, the Nativity Church, which already existed in the KhUG VK and again built in 1719 by Stroganov, and the churches of the Muronosits and Ilinskaya wives, also very ancient. Of these, we will especially highlight the Nativity Church, better known under the name Stroganov, reminiscent of the unique beauty of its architecture of the Church of St. Basil the Blessed in Moscow. Painting connoisseurs usually admire the icons of the Savior and the Mother of God, painted by the artist Caravaque commissioned by Peter the Great for the Petropavlovsk cathedral and, as the legend says, replaced for a huge sum by the artist himself under the agreement of Grigorl Stroganov. The substitution was carried out during the tsar's departure abroad; when, three years later, Peter T, having arrived in Nizhny, stopped at Stroganov’s house and, going into his church for the all-night vigil, recognized the icons that he had seen in an unfinished form in the artist’s studio, the tsar’s anger was so great that he ordered not only to carry out the ceremony, but also to seal the church itself. It is not known for certain how the matter ended, but the church was printed only during the reign of Catherine Ts, and the famous icons are still there today.
There are three monasteries in Nizhny. The Pechersk Monastery is located on the southeastern outskirts of the city, in an extremely picturesque setting, on the bank, descending in ledges to the Volga. The Annunciation Monastery is beautifully spread across the Dyat Mountains above the Oka. In the cathedral church of this monastery there is, remarkable in its antiquity, an icon of the Korsuneka Bolya Mother, painted in 998, as can be seen from the Greek inscription on it; This icon is the only one from the image of the Mother of God, painted by the Evangelist Luke. The Women's Ekrestovozdvizhens Monastery is located on the western outskirts of the city, near the banks of the Oka River, which descends steep ledges to the river.
Anyone who comes to Nizhny Novgorod and wants to get acquainted with its historical attractions can be recommended, after visiting the cathedrals with their tombs and the Kremlin in general, to go out to the Kremlin Boulevard and, sitting on a bench, admire the view spread out in front of him. Only by admiring the reality that a person then presents himself with can one understand to a certain extent the idea that guided Yuri Ts during the foundations of Nizhny Novgorod. Indeed, in the village of Rosai it was impossible to find an area that would more closely resemble the beauty of Vlevskaya nature.