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A view of the "wooden city" that lay behind the prosperous core area.

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

"Kazan": Panorama of the city depicted at the flood stage, from the north, looking across the Kazanka and Zilantov Monastery.

"A old-ritualist church and market on the shore of Lake Kaban in Kazan": A view of the southern shore of Lake Kaban which highlights Kazan's religious diversity. In the background are Orthodox cathedrals. In the middle distance the Haymarket mosque…

A view of the "Rybnoriadskaia" fishmarket square, ca. 1900

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

"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…

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

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

A view of the Bulak Canal from the late nineteenth century.