Gogol Street (formerly Telyachya) runs parallel to Ilyinka. It extends from Malaya Pokrovskaya Street to Sergievskaya Street.
History
Telyachya Street was planned in 1770 with straight, ruler-drawn boundaries, approximately parallel to Ilyinskaya, but was not laid out until the early 19th century. Under the 1823–1824 plan by A. A. Betancourt and V. I. Geste, construction along it was required to follow newly established building lines. Given its proximity to the city's outskirts, wooden houses — including single-story ones — were permitted. Small stone buildings on Telyachya began to appear after the confirmation of the Nizhny Novgorod plan of 1839. Merchants who had risen to prosperity preferred to move away from this street to the more prestigious Ilyinskaya, Bolshaya Pecherskaya Street, or even Bolshaya Pokrovskaya.
At what is now No. 52 Gogol Street, there once stood the tannery (chambers) of the Pushnikovs. The brothers Mitrofan, Ivan, and Yakov Pushnikov operated a tanning manufactory in Nizhny Novgorod at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. In 1691 the wooden structures of their enterprise burned down twice, after which the industrialists undertook the construction of stone buildings in the Sergievsky parish beyond the Pochaina. In early 1697, Mitrofan Pushnikov reported that their "tannery yard with all its stores and yuft goods burned down, causing us a loss of over 600 rubles," and petitioned Peter I not to increase their state tax burden that year. On 16 March 1697, the Nizhny Novgorod voivodes were instructed accordingly: "…if Mitrofan Pushnikov did indeed suffer such devastation by fire, do not increase upon him, Miron, and his brothers, any tax whatsoever."
In 1697 Ivan died, and Mitrofan departed for Moscow with a large consignment of goods (chest-trunks, German and Russian gun locks, copper in ingots). Yakov was therefore left to rebuild the tannery in Nizhny Novgorod on his own. Favorable conditions allowed him to quickly renovate the old stone wing with its vaulted cellars, add a two-story stone annex at one corner, and erect several wooden production outbuildings nearby. By the beginning of 1699, Yakov had already dispatched, in three consignments, 8,982 dressed hides to markets across the country — a substantial quantity given the six-month hide-processing cycle. The single-story wing of the Pushnikov chambers (15 × 15.4 m) follows a four-part floor plan. The southwest chamber (39 sq. m) is distinguished on the exterior by decorative keel-shaped window surrounds, three windows on each side, and inside by a closed vault with lunettes. Beneath the chambers lie spacious vaulted cellars. A ramp-passage leads into the larger cellar (45 sq. m) from the south side; the second cellar was entered directly through the vault. It was most likely intended for storing dressed yuft goods safe from fire and "wicked people."
The two-story wing of the chambers also has a four-part floor plan. The upper floor was reached via a staircase built into the wall. The vaults of the second-floor chambers have preserved molded ornamental decorations in cartouches, characteristic of the Petrine era of the early 18th century.