Kazan Transfer Castle

Transfer prison

There is Baturin Street in Kazan. It's famous.
merchant benefactor. There is an old building outside. It used to be in it. cloth manufactory of the merchant Mikhlyaev, and later - a transit prison. 19th century. Unilaterally. The castle (this is the former name of the street) was held annually. Thousands. When the prisoners arrived, they carried out heavy work from morning to night. They waited for their fate – exile to Siberia. They had a special shape: Overcoats, which had sleeves of different colors, gray, and green, and overcoats on the back There was a yellow rhombus. Hence the name of the convict - "ace of diamonds". Here visited the Decembrists, young Volodya Ulyanov. It was October 1917. In The intelligentsia, the de-kulakized peasantry, the officers have brought down the prison, merchants. The prison lasted until the 60s. The building is changing again. profile. This time there is a hospital where Kazan doctors fought. with the fatal illness of his patients. Now in the building is very necessary and useful Institute of History named after the famous Tatar educator Shigabutdina Marjani. From the Kremlin hill is clearly visible panorama of Kazan. Canulli The story of that time. And only stylized lattice windows and bizarre The shadows fill the “building under the Kremlin” with a secret meaning.