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

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

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

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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…

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"Kazan gymnazium": Kazan's first secondary school, founded in the mid-eighteenth century.

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"Kazan's Central Marketplace": The gostinnyi dvor was the primary marketplace in the city. Burned in 1774 and rebuilt with imperial support at the end of the 18th century, the market housed hundreds of shops. Most were owned by the city, and rented…

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"Kazan Tatar horse race": With the highlands north-east of Kazan reserved for use by ethnic Russians, Tatar holidays like Saban were usually celebrated in the soggy meadows south of town. This picture depicts, in stylized form, a Tatar competition…

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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.

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View of the Ivanovskii Monastery.

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