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Novgorod   /nˈɑvgərˌɑd/   Listen
Novgorod

noun
1.
A city in northwestern Russia on the Volkhov River; Russia's oldest city and an important trading center in the Middle Ages.



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"Novgorod" Quotes from Famous Books



... grave and gay by turns, monotonous and passionate in succession; but wonderfully fresh, picturesque, and fascinating. The listener soon became aware that he was hearing, for the first time, the famous story of "Sadko, the Merchant of Novgorod." It was like being present at the birth of a piece ...
— The Book of Old English Ballads • George Wharton Edwards

... china, porcelain, faience; thousands of them; he got them through dealers from all over the world. He had the finest collection in existence, and maintained a friendly and learned correspondence with the other collector—an elderly, disillusioned Russian prince, who lived somewhere near Nijni-Novgorod. On the spinet and on the writing-table were great bowls ...
— The Rough Road • William John Locke

... day we went on with our walking tour, and when we got back to Heidelberg Braun sailed for America. I never saw him again, although we corresponded frequently, and only last week I had a letter from him, dated Nijni Novgorod, saying he would be at Moscow before ...
— Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches • Maurice Baring

... I had even read in the newspapers of the fearful floggings which had been inflicted in Tchernigov, Tambov, Saratov, Astrakhan, and Orel, and of those of which the governor of Nijni-Novgorod, General Baranov, had boasted. But I had never before happened to see men in the process of ...
— The Kingdom of God is within you • Leo Tolstoy

... Bretons, that we owe the renown of the Breton fables. Brilliant and imitative, the Norman everywhere became the pre- eminent representative of the nation on which he had at first imposed himself by force. French in France, English in England, Italian in Italy, Russian at Novgorod, he forgot his own language to speak that of the race which he had conquered, and to become the interpreter of its genius. The deeply suggestive character of the Welsh romances could not fail to impress men so prompt to seize and assimilate the ideas of ...
— Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various



Words linked to "Novgorod" :   Russian Federation, urban center, Nizhnyi Novgorod, city, Nizhni Novgorod, metropolis, Russia



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