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Astrakhan: Kremlin and Caspian Trade

From Prechistensky Gates through trading compounds to the exchange building

2 hr 20 min3.4 km
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  2. Artillery Tower and the Powder Magazine: story on the “Astrakhan: Kremlin and Caspian Trade” route

    You will examine the design of the final defensive sector and learn what the defenders used when their bullets ran out.

  3. Astrakhan Exchange Building: story on the “Astrakhan: Kremlin and Caspian Trade” route

    The finale will connect the exchange hall with an attempt to establish a direct link between the city and the sea roadstead.

  4. Dormition Cathedral and Lobnoye Mesto: story on the “Astrakhan: Kremlin and Caspian Trade” route

    Here you will distinguish the known circumstances of the metropolitan's death from the disputed location of the Raskat.

  5. Indian Trading Compound: story on the “Astrakhan: Kremlin and Caspian Trade” route

    From the one surviving block, you will reconstruct the layout of the community compound that has disappeared from the city.

  6. Nikolsky Gates: story on the “Astrakhan: Kremlin and Caspian Trade” route

    You will see why merchants needed a church directly above the fortress's river entrance.

  7. Persian Compound: story on the “Astrakhan: Kremlin and Caspian Trade” route

    Beyond the residential doors, you can make out the former arrangement of a hotel, a warehouse, and a place for transactions.

  8. Prechistensky Gates and the Cathedral Bell Tower: story on the “Astrakhan: Kremlin and Caspian Trade” route

    You will learn which vanished building survives only in the name of the Kremlin's main entrance.

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