Life magazine's Volga voyage is a series of color photographs taken during a trip along the Volga in the late 1950s. For Nizhny Novgorod, the series is valuable because it includes views of Gorky and the Makaryev Monastery; the ship also passed — and photographed — other cities along the way: Kazan, Yaroslavl, and Kalyazin. The authorship of individual photographs and the exact shooting dates require clarification from sources.