* Welcome to Kazan, dear guests! I am Ruslan, an accredited tour guide in Kazan and the Republic of Tatarstan. As well as a pure-blooded Tatar and a native of Kazan. I suggest you take a leisurely stroll through the historical center of Kazan and take a look at the most authentic features of my hometown. 1. Let's start with the Kremlin Hill, the place where the ancient Bulgars, the ancestors of modern Tatars, came 1,000 years ago. Today, the "Tatar Fortress with a Russian face" is the Kazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve. What's with the complicated name? What is the symbiosis of Russians and Tatars? * The minarets of the Kul Sharif Mosque will turn your eyes to the sky; * And the domes of the Annunciation Cathedral will remind you of the Star of Bethlehem and the miracle of humanity's salvation.; * Here you will be greeted by the most unusual watches in Kazan; * The original stone masonry of the 16th century will amaze with its antiquity. 2. Cathedral of the Kazan Icon... 27 years after the capture of Kazan, a miracle occurs in the centuries-old Muslim lands: there is a miraculous icon of the intercessor of the Russian land, which will be called the "Kazan Icon of the Mother of God." You will learn the story of its acquisition and blasphemous theft. How the Russian land lived with and without the "Intercessor". 3. Let's go down to the oldest park in Kazan with a 250-year history. "Black Lake" will not leave you indifferent to all the events that took place here for about a quarter of a century. 4. Then we will take a leisurely stroll through the oldest streets of the city: Kremlevskaya, Jalil, Bauman: * let's admire the shopping malls of the 19th century: Chernoyarovsky and Alexandrovsky Passages; we know what kind of woman in red appears in the windows of one of them from time to time; * take a look at Kazan's most beautiful Cathedral, Peter and Paul Cathedral (you will be impressed not only by its unusual decoration, but also by the tallest iconostasis in Russia!) * find out why the oldest pharmacy in the city is called Prolomnaya 5. And finally, the cherry on the cake of our excursion is Staro-Tatarskaya Sloboda. Here you will be completely immersed in the diverse world of the Tatar people...