Kazan (Russia) Hotels

Kazan is a city with a brilliant, brutal, confused, rich history. Relations between the city and Russia, its massive neighbor toward the north, were unstable for a considerable length of time, as Tatar troops attacked Russian terrains and Russian armed forces (both fleeting and otherworldly) attempted to take Tatar land and change over its Islamic populace to Russian Orthodoxy. The state of mind of the Russian rulers to the Tatars was changed: in the sixteenth century, Ivan the Terrible attempted to persuasively change over the Tatars; in the mid-eighteenth century, Empress Elizabeth announced that all Tatar mosques in the city ought to be pulverized, prompting to the bulldozing of more than 400 mosques; and in the late eighteenth century, Catherine the Great permitted working of new mosques. A few mosques dating from this period still remain in the city.