In 1670 there was a meeting between armies of S.T.Razin and Astrakhan riflemen, went over to the insurgents near Black Yar. In 1883 going from Siberia to the settlement...
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Among trading-warehouse constructions Demidov farmstead belonged, under the legend, to the known merchant Demidov's, was, undoubtedly, the largest and most important quay in city. The building...
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Long since farmsteads of east merchants settled down as one dense group in the center of White city. It is easy to be convinced of it if to pass one more...
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From church buildings that were kept outside the Kremlin, John Zlatoust's church is more interesting. Its white eightling with green dome once suddenly and magnetically will flash several times among...
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Construction of the Astrakhan stone Kremlin has been begun in governing of John IV Terrible in 1582, and it was completed in governing of its son tsar Feodor Ioannovich...
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It is necessary to look at Old city in the early morning. At that time streets are deserted . As if the former decades which have left become revealed in its morning light....
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It is necessary to pass along the city quays to get a full idea about Astrakhan of classicism epoch. Volga, Kutum and the channel have surrounded the historical center and have transformed...
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The location of Gold Horde ancient settlement of the 13—14 th centuries. In the 17th century it was large sentry post in the southeast of Russian state.
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One of the oldest constructions in the territory of former White city — a tower of the Spaso-preobrazhenskiy monastery — is in the northeast part of the...
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