Makaryev Fair (Russian: Макарьевская ярмарка) was a 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 Fair. It attracted many foreign
merchants from India, Iran, and Central Asia. This fair was a
commerce centre to sell up to half the total production of
export goods in Russia. The fair ceased in 1929. A society named
Nizhegorodskaya yarmarka (Russian: Нижегородская ярмарка, Nizhny
Novgorod fair) was created in 1991 with its headquarters in the
former main fair building. However, today it is not actually a
fair, but an exhibition center. - Munro-Butler-Johnstone, Henry
Alexander, A trip up the Volga to the fair of Nijni-Novgorod,
Oxford: J. Parker and co., 1876. - Fitzpatrick, Anne Lincoln,
The Great Russian Fair: Nizhnii Novgorod, 1840-90, Houndmills,
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmill