Sviyazhsk

(located 60 km from Kazan)

Having made an excursion to Sviyazhsk, we Turn the pages of his history...

XV century - on the site of the future city is only overgrown with a century-old forest a cone-shaped hill washed by Sviyaga, a tributary of the Volga, and the Shchuka river; in mid-XVI centuries - a powerful wooden fortress of the formidable king, which arose, just fabulous a city by pike order, on enemy territory, a stronghold of the Russians, leading preparations for the decisive battle for Kazan; from the second half of the XVI century and almost to the end of the XVII century - administrative and military shopping center of Russians in the conquered, but not yet mastered region, where they arrive Foreign embassies and foreign merchants. Later - the monastery town, where the reinforced and sometimes cruel work on the Christianization of local non-believers; then - quiet city of the Kazan province, now - a sparsely populated island on the Volga with scattered houses and towering over them monuments of ancient Russian architecture, silent witnesses the heyday of Sviyazhsk, preserving the unique values of fine art. Acting The Holy Assumption Monastery is a UNESCO monument.