When I drove for a few days on a business trip to Kazan, I immediately decided for myself that I could certainly visit the Kazan Kremlin. This is probably the most beautiful place in this city. Everyone who has already been there just with delight about him told. It is easy to find, because it is almost in the very center of the city. It is necessary to move right along Bauman Street and then you will definitely go to the Kremlin. But you can drive up on the subway. The station is called - Kremlin.
In general, visiting the Kremlin for tourists is free, but if you want to learn more information, you can take part in a sightseeing tour. For the first time it is very useful to have a general idea of what. But you don't have time to take pictures, because the tour moves very quickly.
From the history we know that after Ivan Grozny, so to speak "I took Kazan," then there is little from the city. He was almost burned down her soot. In order to re-build the Kremlin Ivan Grozny sent to Kazan Pskov architects who took part in the construction of the Cathedral of Vasily blissful on Red Square in Moscow, which was also built on the occasion of the capture of Kazan. Here is such an interesting story.
Initially, there were 13 towers in the territory of the Kazan Kremlin, and 5 of them were travel. Unfortunately, due to the windings of their structures in the nineteenth century, a part of the towers dismantled and now only 8 of them remained. On the territory of the Kremlin, it is necessary to enter the Spasskaya Tower. It was also built by Pskov architects, in the nineteenth century next to the tower in the wall struck another entrance and thus in the Kremlin became more convenient to enter.
Before the Spasskaya Tower itself, a monument is established by the very famous Tatar poet Musa Jalil, who died during the Great Patriotic War. After you go to the Spasskit Gate, you immediately get to the main street of the Kremlin. On the right side, the building of the present places remains. It is better to immediately turn left - there are much more interesting places. Immediately you can immediately see the Kremlin's plan with all the sights, it looks like some wrong polygon.
At first, in the course of the movement, the exhibition of modern sculptures will fall - this is not very interesting, although it looks unusual. Then the exhibition project is "Eternal Man." Then you can see the complex of the Savior-Preobrazhensky monastery, the truth is only the calves only. By the way, on the Savior-Preobrazhensky Tower there is an observation deck, you can climb and look at the Kremlin from above. Well, right behind the monastery there is a church of Nicholas Wonderworker.
Then go down the path with a tile, and now the current treasure of the Kremlin is seen through the arch - the Kul Sharif mosque. This mosque is simply amazingly beautiful - a sort of light and air building with high minarets (57 meters), they can be seen almost from anywhere in the Kremlin. The mosque was opened in 2005 just when the Millennium of Kazan was celebrated. Inside the mosque is also unusually beautiful, there you can go there, only the clothes must match.
On the left side of the mosque you will see the building of the Juncher School. In general, the whole territory of the Kremlin is unusually well maintained and here it is so nice to walk! Then we go and see in front of him the snow-white Annunciation Cathedral, he was also built in the sixteenth century Pskov architects. Immediately next to a small seammer, which has a monument to the architects - builders of the Kazan Kremlin.
Now it is very important - not far from the Annunciation Cathedral is the second observation deck, it is necessary to climb on it. From there you can see the amazing beauty of the Palace of Agriculties, the Church of the Holy Great Martyr Paraskeva Friday and the Kazanka River. Well, then in the Kremlin Nm will have to meet with a real miracle - falling (like the Pisanskaya) Tower of Syumubik. She deviated from the vertical already at a decent distance, obviously because she asked the foundation.
Near the tower you can see the ruins of the Mausoleum of Kazan Khanov, the palace (introduced) church, and next to the governor's palace. All this together is included in the complex of the presidential palace. The palace itself is closed for visits, you can only look through the fence. Well, finally, the Townitskaya Tower remains. She was also built in the sixteenth century on the spot blown during the siege of the Nur-Ali Tower. And she received her name because of the cache, in which they took water. Well, in general, all that I managed to look at the Kazan Kremlin at a time. It will be necessary to come here again so that it is more detailed and thoroughly inspect.