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List of excursions:
- "Bus and pedestrian sightseeing tour of the city with a visit to the Museum of Islamic Culture"
During the parking of the cruise ship in Kazan, we invite you to a sightseeing tour "National color". You will have a fascinating journey through the very heart of Tatarstan, in which every corner is saturated with history.
Together we will visit the Old Tatar settlement. A walk through this historical quarter of Kazan will instantly take you into the atmosphere of bygone years, because here, through the years, antiquity and originality have been preserved. The stone mosques of Marjani and Apanaevskaya, the museum in the form of an ancient Tatar house, the exposition of Kayum Nasyri and many bright buildings – get your phones ready to capture all this beauty!
You will read the "memory card" of Kazan, on which its entire history is recorded – the Kazan Kremlin. The ancient heart of the city beats behind the impregnable walls of the white stone complex. Famous architectural monuments, palaces, mosques and towers tell their stories to the guests and harmoniously fit into the modern landscape of the capital of Tatarstan.
On the territory of the Kremlin there is one of the business cards of Kazan – the Kul Sharif Mosque, which houses the museum of Islamic culture. Visiting it as part of our tour, you will get acquainted with the role of Islam in the history of the Tatar people, as well as learn about the peculiarities of the Muslim traditions of the peoples of the Volga region. Attention will be attracted by the interactive exhibit "Flipping the Koran", which will allow you to hear surahs performed by famous reciters, as well as understand the explicit and secret meanings of the Holy Scriptures.
The tour is paid separately - "Bus and pedestrian sightseeing tour with a visit to the Spirit of the Golden Horde Museum"
During the parking of the cruise ship in Kazan, we invite you to a sightseeing tour "National color". You will have a fascinating journey through the very heart of Tatarstan, in which every corner is saturated with history.
Together we will visit the Old Tatar settlement. A walk through this historical quarter of Kazan will instantly take you into the atmosphere of bygone years, because here, through the years, antiquity and originality have been preserved. The stone mosques of Marjani and Apanaevskaya, the museum in the form of an ancient Tatar house, the exposition of Kayum Nasyri and many bright buildings – get your phones ready to capture all this beauty!
The history of the Golden Horde can be studied in the Kazan Kremlin, on the territory of the Cannon Yard, in the museum "Spirit of the Golden Horde". Opening the door slightly, you enter a beautiful authentic hall, the design solution of which is the merit of the director of the museum, Yulia Andreevna Stepanova. You will immediately see Genghis Khan himself, the golden leader, who sits proudly on his throne surrounded by horsemen with gleaming sabers and burning eyes. The realism of the composition is achieved by the talent of the masters: sculptor Alexander Bochkarev and artists Ruslan Ibragimov and Valery Blokhin.
The excursion into history begins with the birth of Temujin, and continues with no less significant conquests of his descendants. All this is shown with the help of beautiful reconstructions of artifacts, paintings and miniatures. Mongolian waist linings, patterns on armor and helmets eventually came into use by many medieval warriors. One of the most striking examples of this is the coat of Ivan the Terrible, decorated with a gold notch in an Arabographic pattern. The museum presents several types of armor, helmets, sabers and a recursive bow, ingenious in its design.
And although the Mongols were noted in history first of all as excellent warriors and great conquerors, their history is not limited only to the war, the Silk Road is an ancient trade artery running from distant China to the Black Sea coast. There is a cauldron in the hall, but what a cauldron! It's not a shame to name a city after such a thing! There are Horde ceramics – the reconstruction of the potter Elizaveta Borisova, and the highlight of the program – expensive silks from the east.
In the century, as a result of prolonged civil strife, this state broke up into several separate khanates, which were then successively annexed to the Russian state, Of course, the centuries-old relations between Russia and the Horde did not pass without a trace, and after the annexation of new lands, local peoples continued to influence the history of Russia already as its citizens. The guides will tell you about the variety of words that have entered the Russian language, about the political, cultural and economic finds of the Horde, some of which are not outdated to this day
The tour is paid separately
