KAZAR (called by the Cheremisses Ozon)

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KAZAR (called by the Cheremisses Ozon) , a town of eastern Russia,

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of the government of the same name, situated in 55 48' N. and 49 26" E., on the river Kazanka, 3 M. from the

Volga

VOLGA (known to the Tatars as Etil, Jill or Atel; to the Finnish tribes as Rau, and to the ancients as Rha and Oarus)

, which however reaches the city when it overflows its banks every

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

. Kazan lies 65o m. E. from Moscow by rail and 253 E. of Nizhniy-Novgorod by the

Volga

VOLGA (known to the Tatars as Etil, Jill or Atel; to the Finnish tribes as Rau, and to the ancients as Rha and Oarus)

. Pop. (1883), 140,726; (Iwo), 143,707, all Russians except for some 20,000 Tatars. The most striking feature of the city is the kraal or citadel, founded in 1437, which crowns a low hill on the N.W. Within its

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

, capped with five towers, it contains several churches, amongst them the cathedral of the Annunciation, founded in 1562 by Gury, the first archbishop of Kazan, Kazan being an archiepiscopal see of the Orthodox Greek Church. Other buildings in the kreml are a magnificent monastery, built in 1556; an arsenal; the modern castle in which the

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

resides; and the red brick Suyumbeka tower, 246 ft. high, which is an object of great veneration to the Tatars as the reputed burial-place of one of their saints. A little E. of the kreml is the Bogoroditski convent, built in 1579 for the reception of the Black Virgin of Kazan, a miracle-working image transferred to Moscow in 1612, and in St

Petersburg

PETERSBURG

since 1710. Kazan is the intellectual

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of eastern Russia, and an important seat of Oriental scholarship. Its university, founded in 1804, is attended by nearly loon students. Attached to it are an excellent library of 220,000 vols., an astronomical observatory, a botanical garden and various museums. The ecclesiastical academy, founded in 1846, contains the old library of the Solovetsk (Solovki) monastery, which is of importance for the history of Russian religious sects. The city is adorned with bronze statues of Tsar Alexander II., set up facing the kreml. in 1895, and of the poet G. R. Derzhavin (17431816); also with a monument commemorating the capture of Kazan by Ivan the
Terrible. The central parts of the city consist principally of small one-storeyed houses, surrounded by gardens, and are inhabited chiefly by Russians, while some 20,000 Tatars dwell in the suburbs. Kazan is, further, the intellectual centre of the Russian Mahommedans, who have here their more important schools and their printing-presses. Between the city and the Volga is the Admiralty suburb, where Peter the Great had his Caspian

fleet

FLEET

built for his campaigns against Persia. The more important manufactures are leather goods, soap, wax candles, sacred images, cloth, cottons, spirits and bells. A considerable trade is carried on with eastern Russia, and with Turkestan and Persia. Previous to the 13th century, the present government of Kazan formed part of the territory of the Bulgarians, the ruins of whose ancient capital, Bolgari or Bolgary, lie 6o m. S. of Kazan. The city of Kazan itself stood, down to the 13th century, 30 M. to the N.E., where traces of it can still be seen. In 1438 Ulugh Mahommed (or Ulu Makhmet), khan of the Golden

Horde

HORDE

of the Mongols, founded, on the ruins of the Bulgarian state, the kingdom of Kazan, which in its turn was destroyed by Ivan the Terrible of Russia in 1552 and its territory annexed to Russia. In 1774 the city was laid waste by the rebel Pugachev. It has suffered repeatedly from fires, especially in 1815 and 1825. The Kazan Tatars, from having lived so long amongst Russians and Finnish tribes, have lost a good many of the characteristic features of their Tatar (Mongol) ancestry, and

bear

now the stamp of a distinct ethnographic type. They are found also in the neighbouring governments of Vyatka, Ufa, Orenburg, Samara, Saratov, Simbirsk, Tambov and Nizhniy-Novgorod. They are intelligent and enterprising, and are engaged principally in trade.
See Pineghin's Kazan" Old and New (in Russian) ; Velyaminov-Zernov's Kasimov Tsars (3 vols., St

Petersburg

PETERSBURG

, 18631866) ; Zarinsky's Sketches of Old Kazan (Kazan, 1877) ; Trofimov's Siege of Kazan in 1552 (Kazan, 1890) ; Firsov's books on the history of the native population (Kazan, 1864 and 1869) ; and Shpilevski, on the antiquities of the town and government, in Izvestia i Zapiski of the Kazan University (1877). A bibliography of the Oriental books published
in the city is printed in Bulletins of the St Petersburg Academ(1867). Compare also L. Leger's " Kazan et les tartares," in Bid'. Univ. de Geneve (1874). (P. A. K.; J. T. BE.)

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