The best and largest part of the city, enclosed between Bulak and Kaban on one side and the Kazanka River on the other, has a Kremlin in front of it, facing the Volga. -From the Kremlin Spasskaya Tower, Voskresenskaya Street leads, which is considered the best in the city. ZdBey Duma, the judicial chamber, the district court, hotels, the best shops and a passage, partly inferior only due to the fact that its most beautiful side faces an alley. Voskresenskaya Street ends with large and beautiful buildings: on the right side is the university, on the left is the clinic, one side facing Nikolaevskaya Square. The continuation of the last days is the beautiful Theater Square. Here, near the rather elegant temple of Melpomene, the Assembly of the Nobility is erected - a building of solid and beautiful architecture.
The named squares are separated from one another by the Derzhavinsky Garden, in the middle of which there is a monument to Grieg. Rum. Derzhavin.
The poet is represented sitting on a stone with a lyre in his hand, wearing a tog and sandals; below, on the sides of the pedestal there are bas-reliances: the muses crowning the poet, and he himself, rattling the lyre in front of Felitsa. The monument was built in 1846 with funds delivered by an All-Russian subscription; At first it was placed in the university courtyard and only in 1871 was it moved to the present building. A characteristic detail: the majority of the Kazan common people believe that this monument is to be erected to the general who beat Napoleon in 12 years.
Derzhavin was born and raised in Kazan; his family, like most of the indigenous Kazan surnames,
descended from the Tatar Murza Vagrim, who moved from the Golden Monument to Derzhavin. hordes into Russian service under the Great
Prince Vasili Sh. Poet always loved his hometown. Already as an old man, living on the banks of the Volkhov River, in the village of Zvanka, he wrote a poem to the sounds of P. M. Bakunina playing the ar sh-Pe, which clearly proves how
The old poet treasured his homeland, crowned with laurels, enjoying universal respect and honor. Precisely, turning to Bakunina, he says:
“How fun it is to listen when she’s with you
Sings about the homeland, dear fatherland,
And tell me how spring will bloom there k, t r How golden time rolls on in Kazan.” ° |.
and then further:
“Sound, oh harp, you are all about Kazan!
Sound like Paul appeared in her with grace!
[fragment illegible in the scan of the first edition]
Fatherland and smoke is sweet and pleasant to us!“
Near Nikolaevskaya Square there is Black Lake, which is currently completely covered and serves as a regular place for festivities.
Parallel to Voskresenskaya Street runs Prolomnaya Street, the name of which comes from the fact that in this area, surrounding Kazan, there was a gap during the storming of Kazan in 1552, through which Russian troops broke into the city. The main commercial traffic of the city is concentrated on these streets. On it, where in former times the gates of Tatar Kazan stood, the Church of the Epiphany was later erected, which is therefore called “at the Broken Gate.”
Gruzinskaya Street, starting from Nikolaevskaya Square and overlooking the Arskoye Field, famous in ancient times for the battles between Russians and Tatars that took place there, is striking in its beauty and cleanliness of buildings. On the Arsky field there is the Rodlonov Women's Institute and further away the building of a military hospital and a religious academy. A little before reaching the hospital, there is a ravine through which the road goes along a stone dam; a few fathoms from the dam, the remains of a destroyed bridge were recently visible, on which a characteristic historical meeting took place: having returned from Siberia, exiled there through the machinations of Biron, the former temporary worker Osterman hung out here with Biron, who was being taken to Siberia.
Beyond the Arsky field, opposite the spiritual academy, heading towards the bank of the Kazanka, a very picturesque area begins, known as the Russian and German Swiss, and further, beyond the outskirts of the city, on the elevated bank of the Kazanka, a huge building of a home for the mentally ill rises among the picturesque skyline.
But it’s time for the reader and me to take a walk to the Kazan Kremlin, almost unifying it consisting of ancient buildings. The first thing that catches your eye is the Spasskaya Tower, standing to the right of the main gate.