| Situated, as a result of historical circumstances, in the very heart of Russia, only eight hundred kilometres to the east of Moscow, Kazan is the capital of a multi-national republic that occupies the area between the Volga and the Ural Mountains…
We can judge what Medieval Kazan architecture was like from the ruins of buildings preserved on the site of the city of Great Bolgar, which is easily reached from Kazan by a short boat trip down the Volga
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