Sightseeing tour of Kazan
Description:
Kazan is a city of rich history, which arose at the beginning of the XI century as a northern fortress of the multi-tribal Volga-Kama Bulgaria.
In the middle of the first half of the X111 century, Bulgaria was conquered by the Mongols and as a feudal state ceased to exist. After the collapse of the Golden Horde in the middle of the XV century, the powerful Kazan Khanate was formed, which lasted more than a hundred years, until its conquest by Ivan the Terrible in 1552. According to A.I. Herzen, “Kazan is a place of meeting and meeting of two worlds and there are two principles in it: Western and Eastern and you will meet them at each crossroads.”
About the ancient and medieval history of Kazan you will get brief and detailed information from our professional guides. You will visit the Old Tatar Sloboda – the historical part of Kazan, which for centuries was the religious and social center of the Tatar people. Honor one of the most ancient Orthodox shrines of Russia - the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God - the defender of Russia in the troubled time of 1612, in the Patriotic War of 1812. In the difficult years of the Great Patriotic War, the cities of Moscow, Stalingrad, Leningrad flew with this Shrine. The three-hundred-year-old Romanov dynasty was married and crowned with this icon from its first founder, Mikhail Romanov. Petropavlovsk single-domed temple, erected in the early XVIII century in the Baroque style, in honor of the arrival in Kazan of Emperor Peter I, will not leave you indifferent.
Visit Kazan State University (former Imperial), where N.I. Lobachevsky, the creator of non-Euclidean geometry, astronomer I.M. Simonov, who, as part of the expedition of Bellingshausen and Lazarev, discovers Antarctica, A.M. Butlerov - the law of the structure of organic compounds, E.K. Zavoisky - the phenomena of nuclear and electron paramagnetic resonances, the founder of modern tomographs and MRI studies, studied. The great poet of the XVIII century G.R. Derzhavin was born in the Kazan province, F.I. Chaliapin was born in Kazan, V.I. Lenin studied, L.N. Tolstoy and A.M. Gorky lived. The great poets Gabdullah Tukay and Moussa Jalil – you will learn about them and many other famous people associated with Kazan on the excursion.
