In ancient times there were many lakes in the city, which stretched from the Kremlin to Kaban and were all called “filthy lakes”; After childhood they were constantly filled up, and by our time only one of them remained, Black Lake. The Kazanka River still exists in its former form, but the other river, Bulak, due to its waterlessness, looks more like a wide ditch than a river.
As an ancient Tatar capital, Kazan, of course, has its own legends. So, for example, about its construction there is the following legend: the brave khan of the Golden Horde Lan-Gemirlan conquered the Bulgarian kingdom, ruined its capital and executed the Bulgarian king; elder, the son of the executed Altyn, managed to escape from the Mongols and, finding himself safe, founded a small town on the river, which flows into the Volga; one of the prince's servants, getting water from the river for him, dropped a cast-iron cauldron (according to Tatarek - cauldron) into it. When the prince was informed about this, he ordered that the name “Kazan” and rbk be given to the newly built city.
Another version of the same thing reads as follows. Batu or one of his sons was hunting wild boars in the river valleys; when they were preparing dinner for the khan and his companions, the servant, who was scooping up water with a cauldron, stumbled and dropped the cauldron into the river; There was nothing to cook food with, and the hungry hunters went to bed without dinner. Under the bad impression of this happening, the ruk was called a “cauldron”, i.e. “Kazan”, and as a child the khan came up with the idea of building a city on this very spot, which was named after the rfka. One way or another, the newly built city grew very quickly, and the Bulgarian capital, destroyed by the Tatars, was essentially reborn in Kazan. A little over a hundred years later the city was moved to a new one, its current one, and there is also a legend about this.
A wealthy resident of ancient Kazan (Iski-Kazan) visited his hives, living in a forest on Dzhelantau (Snake Mountain) in the same place where present-day Kazan stands; His beautiful daughter went there with him, very fond of the mountainous, flaxen, sweeping bees. When she was already married and she herself went to the Kazanka River for water, once, climbing the steep bank with a heavy burden, she loudly scolded the founder of the city for choosing such a bad place to settle. Khan was informed about the carelessly spoken words, and the young woman was called for interrogation. The beauty was not afraid and, in front of the khan, repeated her opinion, adding that it was good for the khans to receive water through
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servants, but women have to drag her to the steep bank; At the same time, she diligently praised the fetality near the mouth of the Kazanka River, where her father’s beekeeping was located. Khan listened to her hesitantly and objected: “How can we build a city there, where there are so many snakes and boars?” *)—Why does the khan have sorcerers and healers? - the beauty answered, won’t they be able to drive away the vile creatures?
The Khan, not very fond of the location of his city, decided to take advantage of the pretty woman’s advice and sent his son with two nobles and a hundred warriors to the mouth of the Kazanka, ordering them to find a place to build a city. Those sent were given a sealed envelope with the command to open this on the chosen mark and immediately carry out what was specified in it. The place was chosen unanimously, exactly where Kazan now stands, and having opened the envelope, the messengers read it and led the Khan to bury in the ground the one of the three on whom the lot would fall. Kreby was thrown and fell on the khan's son. The nobles felt sorry for the young prince and decided to deceive the khan; The prince was hidden, and a live dog was buried in the ground. Khan IruBhal inspected the place chosen for the city, approved the choice, but was very sad that he had lost his son; Seeing this, the nobles confessed to the deception. The Khan was overjoyed at first, but then thought about it and said: “God will punish us for the deception committed for my benefit; the city will be beautiful and prosperous, but in time it will be captured by enemies
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Cathedral of St. Peter and Paul.