Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan, is not among the most acclaimed urban communities in Russia, yet it is loaded with entrancing places and attractions. One of them is Kazan Millennium Park. As a matter of first importance, it is known for its Kremlin and afterward its mosque, among the biggest in Europe. Being the 6th […]
Author: Widiya
Russia has been known for its powerful military forces. Why can’t Russia be separated from military? The nineteenth century Russian tsar, Alexander III, said that, “Russia only just two partners: her military and her armada.” The man who drives Russia today, President Vladimir Putin, has done bounty to develop Russia’s military might. However, referring to […]
There lies the interesting historic town of Gorodets on the steeply sloping banks of the Volga, 53 kilometres upriver from Nizhny Novgorod. The town has been connected with the semi-legendary city of Little Kitezh, as far as anyone knows crushed by the Mongol Hordes, while its sister city Greater Kitezh got away by sinking into the profundities of Lake Svetloyar, leaving […]
The Volga, at 3,530 kilometres long, is not just the longest river in Russia. It also plays an outsized role in Russian history. It was the main channel for Moscow’s drive southward, throughout the hundreds of years, to the Caspian Sea. It gave the backdrop to Tsar Ivan the Terrible’s epic triumph over the Khanates of Kazan, […]
The thousand-year-old Kazan has a bustling cultural life. Yearly cultural occasions, for example, the Rudolph Nureyev International Ballet Festival, the Feodor Chaliapin International Opera Festival, and the White Lilac International Festival named after Sergey Rachmaninov invite a large number of guests every year. The occupants of Kazan are extremely glad for their theatres and the […]
In this article, we will learn more about Temple of All Religions, a proof that Russia is the right country for all religions. Situated in the Russian city of Kazan, the beautiful Temple of All Religions, or Universal Temple is a mish-mash of structural twists culled from a large portion of the major world religions […]
Set along the peaceful Polist River, Staraya Russa holds the ideal appeal of the nineteenth century, when Dostoevsky composed a significant part of The Brothers Karamazov there. The town is the setting for the novel where you can visit the roads and churches the characters frequented and the home of Dostoevsky himself. There is additionally a bunch […]
On the Volga, 150 kilometres northwest of Moscow, Tver goes back to the twelfth century. After a fire levelled the vast majority of the town in 1763, the engineer Pyotr Nikitin replanned Tver’s centre on a three-ray framework and assembled his patron, Catherine the Great, a historic site in Tver a.k.a. a ‘street royal residence’ to lay in on ventures between the then-Russian capital […]
In spite of how vast Russia is, in terms of both land zone and the nation’s impact on world history, it is enticing to consider only Moscow and St. Petersburg when the idea of Russian travel comes up. There are innumerable counter-examples to this propensity. However, the city of Astrakhan stays in the dark, even […]
Astrakhan sits with legs on each side of the Volga north of the Caspian Sea and is Russia’s face on the multinational waterway. The city reflects a significant part of the district’s cultural and religious variety. There are huge networks of Kazakhs and Azeris, just as Islamic Tatars. While numerous guests use Astrakhan for the most […]