"Swimming over the Volga..." (Sviyazhsk)

The world does not know what it owes to Sviyazhsk - after all, only after the capture of Kazan, the borders of the Moscow state expanded, the flow of Russian settlers rushed to the east, and the light of Orthodoxy went to the right bank of the Volga and further, to the Urals, to Siberia and in general to 1 sixth of the earth's land.

And it is unlikely that Ivan the Terrible would have taken Kazan if he had not built Sviyazhsk, an outpost on the way to the impregnable city of Kazan.

An unusual history of the construction of Sviyazhsk, an unusual place surrounded by three rivers, a sacred place where you just physically feel the vortices of the history of our great Russia curling over it.

The island-city of Sviyazhsk floats over the Volga, floats out of time, like the city of Kitezh - here it is, and here it is not, so it is unreal and beautiful ...