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A view of Voskresenskaia street, one of Kazan's major thoroughfares, lined with upscale residences and shops, public buildings, and churches.

A picture of St. Catherine's Lutheran Church from the late nineteenth century, as it appeared after its reconstruction in the 1860s. An earlier Lutheran church stood on the site from the late 1770s.

One of the earliest city maps of Kazan, developed by an engineering officer named Artemon Satsyperov in 1730.

"Plan for the provincial capital of Kazan": A master plan for the layout of the city, developed at the decree of Catherine II. Finished in 1768, the plan was largely implemented after the city was sacked and burned in 1774 during the Pugachev…

"Plan of the Provincial Capital of Kazan, with its Surroundings": an area map of the city, ca. the 1830s.

"Plan of the Provincial Capital of Kazan": An official map of the city of Kazan, ca. 1817.

"Plan of the City of Kazan": 1884.

"Plan of the City of Kazan with its Surroundings": 1887.

"General view of the city of Kazan:" The view from the Kreml at the end of the nineteenth century, looking out over the Kazan women's monastery and the northern part of the city.

"Kazan Mother-of-God Monastery": A view of Kazan's women's monastery, near the Kreml.