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

"Plan of the City of Kazan": 1884.

"View of the greeting of the Smolensk Mother of God in the city of Kazan": Every year the Sedmiozhernaia replica of the Smolensk Mother of God icon--a sacred relic reputed to have saved the city from more than one epidemic and disaster--was brought…

A view of the working waterfront of the Admiralty district, during the spring flood-stage.

A view of one of Kazan's first mosques, the Apanaev mosque, constructed in 1768.

View along the wall of the Kazan Kreml, toward the gatehouse entrance.

View of the Ivanovskii Monastery.

View of the bridge along the "Siberian Highway" on the north-eastern outskirts of town.

A view of the Kazan Kreml from across the Kazanka, depicting the low, flood-prone meadows that surrounded the city.

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.