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      If it rains: the Kremlin museums

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 1.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Almost the whole day indoors: the National Museum, meteorites and dinosaurs, Fechin at Khazine, lunch at Chirem and the Qolsharif Mosque with the Islam museum.

      🏛 History and architecture🎨 Art☔️ If it rains
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      1. 1
        🖼 National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan
        Кремлёвская ул., 2
        🎟 ticket
        The republic's main history museum, in the former Gostiny Dvor opposite the Kremlin, covering the region from ancient times to the 20th century.
        Start across from the Kremlin, from 10:00
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        National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan
        © Денис Петьовка · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The museum was ceremonially opened on 5 April 1895.
        • It occupies the former Gostiny Dvor, a monument of federal significance.
        • Thanks to a gift of 500,000 rubles from Alexandrova-Heins, the museum was housed on Voskresenskaya Street, now Kremlyovskaya.
        • The idea of a city museum was born among professors of Kazan University in the late 1870s.
        • Its collections hold more than 960,000 items.
        • The numismatic collection includes 401 gold coins.
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      3. 2
        🖼 Natural History Museum of Tatarstan
        Кремль, 12
        🎟 ticket · free for schoolchildren and preschoolers
        Twelve halls about the Earth and life on it: meteorites, minerals, a model of a mud volcano and skeletons of ancient reptiles.
        Meteorites and palaeontology; closed on Mondays
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        Natural History Museum of Tatarstan
        © Engelberthumperdink · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum occupies a former 19th-century cadet school: 12 halls on two floors.
        • It has a collection of meteorites, an interactive telescope and "space scales".
        • The second floor is devoted to palaeontology: the first fish, marine reptiles, dinosaurs, a mammoth and a woolly rhinoceros.
        • Oil is explained with a working model of a mud volcano and an interactive well.
        • For children there are play areas such as a "track trail" of ancient animals.
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      5. 3
        🖼 Khazine Gallery
        Кремль, 12, бывшее юнкерское училище
        🎟 ticket
        A national art gallery in a former cadet school: Nikolai Fechin, the Kazan avant-garde and Tatar artists of the 20th century.
        Fechin and the Kazan avant-garde, in the same former cadet school building
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        Khazine Gallery
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The gallery opened in 2005, for Kazan's 1000th anniversary, in the building of a former cadet school.
        • Khazine is a branch of the State Museum of Fine Arts of Tatarstan.
        • The permanent exhibition holds about two thousand works by artists from Kazan and Tatarstan.
        • Several rooms are devoted to Nikolai Fechin, including his 1914 Portrait of Varya Adoratskaya.
        • A separate gallery is dedicated to Haris Yakupov, and there are works by Baki Urmanche, the founder of Tatar painting.
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      7. 4
        🍽 Chirem restaurant
        Кремль, 5
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        Lunch: bread from a wood-fired oven and oxtail soup
        🍴 A modern Tatar cuisine restaurant in the Kremlin: bread from its own wood-fired oven and bas-reliefs of Tatar herbs on the walls. What to order: spelt tartlets, oxtail soup, echpochmak and herbal tea.
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      9. 5
        🖼 Museum of Islamic Culture
        Кремль, 13, цокольный этаж мечети Кул-Шариф
        🎟 ticket
        A museum beneath the Qolsharif Mosque about how Islam came to the Volga region and what it became among the Tatars.
        The basement level of Qolsharif
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        Museum of Islamic Culture
        © Engelberthumperdink · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum has been in the basement level of the Qolsharif Mosque since 21 February 2006.
        • It is the only museum in Russia devoted to the history and culture of Islam among the Turkic-Tatar peoples of the Volga and Urals regions.
        • The exhibition was updated in April 2014.
        • It has three sections: from Bolgar to Kazan, from the age of the reformers to the present day, and the book culture of the Tatars.
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      11. 6
        🖼 Museum of the History of Tatar Statehood
        Кремль, 1А, бывшая Дворцовая церковь
        🎟 ticket · free for schoolchildren and preschoolers
        A museum in the former Palace Church by the Söyembikä Tower about the states in Tatar history before modern Tatarstan.
        The throne of the Kazan khans and Golden Horde coins
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        Museum of the History of Tatar Statehood
        © Марина Валиуллина · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum occupies the former Palace Church in the oldest part of the Kremlin.
        • It tells the story of the states in the history of the Tatar people, up to the Tatar ASSR and modern Tatarstan.
        • The exhibition includes a reconstruction of the throne of the Kazan khans and Golden Horde coins.
        • There is also a 16th-century quiver with a winged serpent and 15th–16th-century inscriptions in Arabic script.
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      13. 7
        🏛 Annunciation Cathedral
        Кремль, 2
        🆓 free entry
        The oldest church in the Kremlin: a five-domed white-stone cathedral from the 16th century, built by Pskov masters.
        Finale: the 16th-century cathedral
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        Annunciation Cathedral
        © Валерий Дед · CC BY 3.0
        Annunciation Cathedral
        © A.Savin · FAL
        • The cathedral was consecrated on 15 August 1562; it was built by masters led by Postnik Yakovlev and Ivan Shiryai, the authors of St Basil's Cathedral.
        • It is the oldest surviving monument in the Kremlin and in the whole city.
        • The stone was brought from the high opposite bank of the Volga; it is Volga limestone.
        • From 1552 to 1918 it was the cathedral church of the Kazan diocese.
        • The five-domed church on six pillars followed the plan of the Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin.
        • The cathedral's bell tower was destroyed in the 1920s–1930s.

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