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"Kazan-Iunusov square and the house of B. K. Apanaev": A scene from about 1900 which linked the two Tatar merchant dynasties that had towered over economic life in Kazan throughout the nineteenth century--the Iunusovs (who had once owned this…

"Kazan Imperial University": facade of the main university building.

"The Main Tatar mosque in Kazan": one of Kazan's first two mosques, built in the 1760s. During the nineteenth century it was associated with the patronage of Kazan's Iunusov merchant dynasty, and came to be called the al-Marjani mosque, after…

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

A view over the rooftops of the centrally-located Peter and Paul Cathedral.

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