The lithograph depicts the view of Kazan’s Voskresenskaya [Resurrection] Street in the first half of the 19th century. Voskresenskaya Street began on Ivanovskaya Square (nowadays - May 1 Square), from the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin, and ended at the main building of Kazan University.
Lithographic picture Voskresenskaya Street
Creation period
1839
Dimensions
37x44 cm
Technique
Lithography with toning
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Edward Tournerelli
Lithographic picture Voskresenskaya Street
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Numerous shops were located on Voskresenskaya Street. They sold fabrics, clothes, footwear, furs, jewelry and even furniture. While walking along the avenue, guests and residents of Kazan could visit a fashion shop, a photo studio or a hairdresser’s. The famous writer Leo Tolstoy was, in his young years, a regular visitor to the bookstores on Voskresenskaya Street, according to local history researcher Renat Bikbulatov.
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After the October 1917 revolution, Voskresenskaya Street was renamed after the researcher, writer and publicist Nikolai Chernyshevsky. It became Lenin Street in 1960, and is called Kremlyovskaya Street nowadays.
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There is a four-tier bell tower in the center of the lithography’s background, and a one-dome Church of the Resurrection on the right. The stone temple built on the site of the old church was consecrated in 1734. But, the side-chapel of St. Sergius the Wonderworker, which is located near it, existed in the XVII century, according to the XIX-th century local history scholar Efimiy Malov. The church suffered several fires, after each of them it was restored.
The landowner Ivan Rodionov, killed by Yemelyan Pugachev (leader of the late 18th century popular rebellion), was buried near the fence of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ. His widow, Anna Rodionova, managed to recover and improve the family’s financial position - she had a successful fish trade business and supplied bread to the Russian treasury. She bequeathed considerable funds to the city and founded the first women’s school in the Eastern part of the country, which was named after Rodionova.
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Kazan Rodionovsky Institute of Noble Young Ladies was opened in 1841 and existed until 1918. There were many famous women among its students, for example, Catherine Gardner, the translator and co-author of Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Leo Tolstoy’s sister Maria as well as the revolutionaries Vera and Lydia Figner.
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By the end of the XIX century the Church of the Resurrection was in an emergency state, so it was dismantled. The Resurrection Cathedral made of stone was soon built on the same spot, according to the drawings by architect Heinrich Rosen. Only the bell tower from the old ensemble has survived until today.
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The cathedral survived until 1930 and is now replaced by the Chemistry Department building of Kazan University.
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Lithographic picture Voskresenskaya Street
Creation period
1839
Dimensions
37x44 cm
Technique
Lithography with toning
Exhibition
0
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