Kazan, Russia
Kazan
After a day on a fancy 'FIRM'train from Moscow, we arrived in Kazan. The capital of the autonomous region of Tatarstan, this felt like it could easily be Russia's third city. It didnt feel like a city of inheritants of the Mongol horde. Tatars, which in the end we did confirm were the same as Tartars, have little left from a tradition of nomadic horsemen, and instead Kazan is presented as an exemplary case of multiculturalism, between the Orthodox russian ...