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Kazan` na Starinnykh Otkrytkakh

Альбом

Kazan` was one of the largest city in imperial Russia. The history of the city goes back to the 12th century. At that time it was a small frontier fortress in the powerful state of Bulgaria in the Volga region. From the mid 15th to the mid 16th century Kazan was the capital of the Kazan Khanate. The town was rich and beautiful and impressed the contemporaries with the strength of its walls, its Kremlin, and the splendor of its palaces and mosques. This is an album of city views on old postcards. Among the students of Kazan University were the mathematician Nikolai Lobachevskii, the writers Leo Tolstoi, Velemir Khlebnikov, and P. Mel`nikov-Pecherskii, the politician Vladimir Ul`ianov-Lenin, and other outstanding people. 169 illustrations.