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Kazanskaia gimnaziia
"Kazan gymnazium": Kazan's first secondary school, founded in the mid-eighteenth century.
Vid Kazanskoi Kreposti
"View of the Kazan Fortress" : a scene of the Kreml, showing the portable bridges used to span the Kazanka for most of the year, and then removed during the flood.
Monastyr Kazanskoi Bozhiei Materi
"Kazan Mother-of-God Monastery": A view of Kazan's women's monastery, near the Kreml.
Tatar Mosque, Kazan
A view of one of Kazan's first mosques, the Apanaev mosque, constructed in 1768.
Entrance to the fortress, Kazan
View along the wall of the Kazan Kreml, toward the gatehouse entrance.
Monastery of St. Ivan, Kazan
View of the Ivanovskii Monastery.
Barrier of Siberia, Kazan
View of the bridge along the "Siberian Highway" on the north-eastern outskirts of town.
Fortress of Kazan
A view of the Kazan Kreml from across the Kazanka, depicting the low, flood-prone meadows that surrounded the city.
Tower of Suyumbeka
A view of the so-called Suyembika tower, a structure located within the grounds of the Kazan Kreml and apocryphally claimed to predate the Russian conquest of the city in 1554.
Monastery of Kazan
A view of the relatively open area north of the Kreml, dominated by the Kazan Women's Monastery. Behind the Monastery is the Kazaka River, and Zasypkinaia Street which hugs the shoreline.