- Annunciation Cathedral: story on the “Kazan Kremlin: Fortress and Two Faiths” route
It will show the cathedral as a place where the city’s defense continued through an investigation and a secret letter.
- Apanaevskaya Mosque: story on the “Old Tatar Settlement: Lake Kaban, Merchants, and the Tatar Stage” route
Here you will see how one builder's efforts and the support of several generations created a lasting congregation.
- Approaching Sviyazhsk: story on the “Sviyazhsk: Fortress, Town, and Monasteries” route
It will show how the terrain, rivers, and lack of a reliable base determined the town’s creation.
- Archaeological Wood Museum «Tatarskaya Slobodka»: story on the “Sviyazhsk: Fortress, Town, and Monasteries” route
It will show you an entire city block where it was built and repeatedly raised above the damp ground.
- Assumption Cathedral: story on the “Sviyazhsk: Fortress, Town, and Monasteries” route
It will show how ancient wall painting survived an attempt to replace it completely with new paintings.
- Assumption Monastery: story on the “Sviyazhsk: Fortress, Town, and Monasteries” route
It will explain why the return of the founder became more important than the loss of most of his remains.
- Black Chamber: story on the “Bolgar: Islam on the Volga” route
The legend of the price of salvation will stand here beside an honest admission that the building’s original purpose is unknown.
- Cannon Yard: story on the “Kazan Kremlin: Fortress and Two Faiths” route
It will show what remained of military production after the fire and the relocation of the workshops.
- Cathedral Mosque, Great Minaret, and Assumption Church: story on the “Bolgar: Islam on the Volga” route
Here, an imperial repair, a treasure hunters’ tunnel, and stones from the ancient city in the foundation of a later church all come together.
- Cathedral of the Mother of God Joy of All Who Sorrow: story on the “Sviyazhsk: Fortress, Town, and Monasteries” route
It tells of an abbess who put all her resources into a shared church and did not live to see its first service.
- Eastern Mausoleum: story on the “Bolgar: Islam on the Volga” route
This stop shows how conversion into a church both altered a medieval tomb and helped preserve it.
- Galeev Mosque and Muhammadiya Madrasa: story on the “Old Tatar Settlement: Lake Kaban, Merchants, and the Tatar Stage” route
Here, the personal choice of a merchant’s son will grow into a system of education for hundreds of students.
- Governor's Palace: story on the “Kazan Kremlin: Fortress and Two Faiths” route
It explains why an imperial apartment above the governor's quarters waited decades for its occupant.
- House of Shamil — Tukay Museum: story on the “Old Tatar Settlement: Lake Kaban, Merchants, and the Tatar Stage” route
The mansion shows how a private home became an address of remembrance for a poet who never lived here.
- Ivan Shishkin House Museum: story on the “Yelabuga: From Merchant Naberezhnaya Street to the Ancient Hillfort” route
The family home reveals four years between turning away from an expected future and leaving to study painting.
- Karim Tinchurin Theatre: story on the “Old Tatar Settlement: Lake Kaban, Merchants, and the Tatar Stage” route
The finale will bring together on one stage two moves, two companies, and a long struggle for workable space.
- Kul Sharif Mosque: story on the “Kazan Kremlin: Fortress and Two Faiths” route
It connects the negotiations before the siege, the defense of the khanate citadel, and the return of a religious purpose in the new building.
- Marina Tsvetaeva Literary Museum: story on the “Yelabuga: From Merchant Naberezhnaya Street to the Ancient Hillfort” route
Here, the poet's biography will be separated from the story of her final days in Yelabuga.
- Marina Tsvetaeva Memorial House: story on the “Yelabuga: From Merchant Naberezhnaya Street to the Ancient Hillfort” route
The house’s authentic layout restores the everyday scale of Tsvetaeva’s final days.
- Marjani Mosque: story on the “Old Tatar Settlement: Lake Kaban, Merchants, and the Tatar Stage” route
This stop turns the neighboring mosque and madrasa into the story of a dispute over a school and the right to run it.
- Memorial Sign and Quran Museum: story on the “Bolgar: Islam on the Volga” route
This stop separates the known details of the Baghdad mission from the meeting place that researchers have still not identified.
- Merchant Naberezhnaya and Ushkov Terrace: story on the “Yelabuga: From Merchant Naberezhnaya Street to the Ancient Hillfort” route
This stop will show how private money turned the edge of the high riverbank into a public place.
- Museum of Bulgar Civilization: story on the “Bolgar: Islam on the Volga” route
The final point will return the archaeological finds to the exact place where a burned workshop was discovered beneath the future river terminal.
- Museum of Sviyazhsk History: story on the “Sviyazhsk: Fortress, Town, and Monasteries” route
Connects a single court document with the layout of the uyezd administrative and prison courtyard.
- Museum of Yelabuga History: story on the “Yelabuga: From Merchant Naberezhnaya Street to the Ancient Hillfort” route
The former living quarters, shops, and outbuildings help reveal the merchant estate as a single household.
- New Kamal Theatre and the southern shore of Lake Kaban: story on the “Old Tatar Settlement: Lake Kaban, Merchants, and the Tatar Stage” route
This stop connects the modern waterfront with the return of the lake to the city and the theatre to its audiences.
- Northern Mausoleum: story on the “Bolgar: Islam on the Volga” route
Here you will learn why a nameless family burial vault displays the names of people buried elsewhere.
- Nurulla Mosque and Sennoy Bazaar: story on the “Old Tatar Settlement: Lake Kaban, Merchants, and the Tatar Stage” route
This stop connects the organization of the congregation with the daily routine of a vanished marketplace.
- Portomoinya Museum: story on the “Yelabuga: From Merchant Naberezhnaya Street to the Ancient Hillfort” route
The former washhouse explains how spring water became a municipal service and everyday work.
- Public Offices: story on the “Kazan Kremlin: Fortress and Two Faiths” route
It links the officials’ building with an attempt to turn a serf troupe into a city theater.
- Qayum Nasiri Museum: story on the “Old Tatar Settlement: Lake Kaban, Merchants, and the Tatar Stage” route
This small house shifts the conversation from parish schools to private work on the Tatar language.
- Rozhdestvenskaya Square: story on the “Sviyazhsk: Fortress, Town, and Monasteries” route
It will explain how the town’s central place became a point of access to education.
- Spasskaya Tower: story on the “Kazan Kremlin: Fortress and Two Faiths” route
It shows why the familiar straight entrance conceals the defensive design of the sixteenth-century gate.
- Spassky Cathedral: story on the “Yelabuga: From Merchant Naberezhnaya Street to the Ancient Hillfort” route
Here, the scale of the city that gathered around one venerated icon will become clear.
- Syuyumbike Tower: story on the “Kazan Kremlin: Fortress and Two Faiths” route
Separates the fate of the Kazan regent from the legend that arose around a later tower.
- Taynitskaya Tower: story on the “Kazan Kremlin: Fortress and Two Faiths” route
It will reveal how an invisible route to water became the target of an underground attack.
- The Small Minaret and Khan's Tomb: story on the “Bolgar: Islam on the Volga” route
Here, the conventional “khan's” name will encounter the anonymous burials of noble townspeople.
- The Western Wall and the Monastery Well: story on the “Sviyazhsk: Fortress, Town, and Monasteries” route
This will finish the route where the monastery enclosure separated the monastery courtyard from the town road to the water.
- Trinity Church: story on the “Sviyazhsk: Fortress, Town, and Monasteries” route
It examines what research confirms about the appearance of the oldest wooden church and what remains a matter of tradition.
- White Mosque: story on the “Bolgar: Islam on the Volga” route
Here you will learn why the new mosque was built separately from the medieval ruins and why space for study was included from the start.
- Yelabuga Hillfort: story on the “Yelabuga: From Merchant Naberezhnaya Street to the Ancient Hillfort” route
The final stop makes it possible to distinguish medieval masonry from a merchant-funded reconstruction.