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2010 » 31st July » travel RUSSIA Dancing Tatars
addition to Saint Petersburg to Kazan is the former capitals of Russia. Now the city is courting more tourists
Ingo Petzmiracle is it in this place many, here on the outskirts of Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan. Here, where the old Lenin monuments still work strangely fresh, rusty but the children's playgrounds and dilapidated. Here, where the Volga is wide as a lake and its water glistens in the sun like satin. Here, where Christians and Muslims, Russians and Tatars are so tolerant and harmonious living together that was said to be cool even Hillary Clinton very impressed. The nicest surprise, however, lies in the musty rooms of Manzuk. The wiry man in slippers and shorts is the helper of the miracle healer, philosopher, architect and artist Ildar Chanow, himself the former Head of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, is said to have liberated from hemorrhoids. The master had no time today, had said Manzuk in greeting. He had many visitors who come to him to be cured of it - "with good words." After all, every disease is a disease of the soul. Manzuk is therefore in this sultry, stuffy room that is fully provided with all sorts of trinkets and Tinnef. In a dusty shelf are nothing but glasses, filled with dry earth. Guests bring Manzuk earth from their homes with. "Here," he says, holding ein kleines Glas in die Höhe, "diese Erde stammt aus dem Grab, in dem George W. Bush beerdigt werden wird." Rechts fällt der Blick schließlich auf ein großes Poster der Mutter Teresa, links auf ein Ölbild, auf dem der Pop-Star Madonna zu sehen ist, in Strapsen und lasziver Pose. "Das sind die Frauen, die mich in meinem Leben am meisten inspiriert haben", sagt Manzuk und lächelt, als er selbstgebrannten Kognak und schwitzigen Käse reicht. Man zweifelt keinen Moment an diesem Satz, so natürlich wirkt das Nebeneinander von Madonna und Mutter Teresa. Schließlich yes theme is the juxtaposition of the building, which houses Manzuks curious room. From the outside, the building looks crooked with his stained glass windows, turrets and minarets like a fairytale castle. The Cathedral of the religions is a perpetual construction site. It arises since 1994, when Chanow should have of Jesus Christ himself got the job, take a spade and establish the foundation for a church of all religions. Since then, pilgrims tourists, the curious and people who seek the advice and help of Chanow, to Kazan. Where does the money come for the mighty works? "Ah! Geld", raunt Manzuk. "Freunde und Bekannte schenken uns Baumaterial. Und sie schenken uns ihre Arbeitskraft und ihr Wissen." So ist das im Land der Tataren, das einem während eines viertägigen Aufenthalts tatsächlich wie ein kleines Paradies vorkommt. Was natürlich auch daran liegt, dass die Reiseführer darauf bedacht sind, das in Tourismus-Kreisen noch weitgehend unbekannte Reiseziel mit einem Sinn für das Märchenhafte anzupreisen. Der legendäre Mintimer Schamijew regierte die Republik seit 1991. Er war einer der Schwergewichte unter den russischen Provinzfürsten, einer, dem managed to win by his good relations with Moscow for his republic and maintain maximum independence. Probably also because the Kremlin has a vested interest in Tatarstan. Finally, the Republic is rich in oil. That is why the country is populated by over 3.5 million people, as comparatively wealthy. You can see the daring of new buildings as a shopping center in the shape of a pyramid or the Hotel Riviera, an unsightly skyscraper on the banks of Kazanka you want with its sandy beach and its lying well conjure up a little Italian flair of nouveau riche. You can tell from the huge Kul Sharif Mosque was projecting that its dome and four minarets of the Kremlin over the city enthroned and consecrated after eight years of construction 2005th You can tell from the many construction sites in the 1.1 million inhabitants, as well as the construction projects that will realize the Republic: A new airport terminal, new roads, hotels, a new station to her.
addition, the handlebar Kazan of the opinion that the deep sleep for their 1000 year old city was to be finally over. Kazan, the home of the Russian football champion Rubin Kazan and the famous icon of Our Lady of Russia has had, as a destination a little more attention deserves. Therefore is properly the drum for the Tatar capital, stirred with slogans such as "Kazan where Europe meets Asia", "The three main cities of Russia: Moscow-St. Petersburg-Kazan "or minted on the ethnic and cultural diversity of the city:" The whole world is in Kazan.
Whether Kazan future to the mandatory destination of travelers is east of Moscow, is still in the stars of the Eastern European level. Reasons for this but there is all. Finally, the city at the confluence of the Volga Kazanka and a turbulent history. In the 10th Century, founded by the Volga Bulgars, the city was the center of the Mongol Khanate of Kazan, the Ivan the Terrible, could win only after numerous assaults. Thus, Kazan architecture today, especially Russian and Soviet-dominated. Only in the former Tatar part of the river beyond the Bulak find an older wooden houses and mosque, decorated with ornaments Tatar.
We drive in the small Tatar village Kora Hodja ("black ruler"), which is nestled between rolling hills and lush meadows and fields. Small wooden houses with wild orchards, ornamental fences and gates are lined up along the unpaved roads. It is Sabantuy ("Festival of the Plough"), the summer festival, which dates back to the time of the Volga Bulgars, and is now celebrated as a colorful festival with folklore shows and competitions in the sack race or eggs run. Women in colorful costumes sing and dance to the accordion-playing of a little man with gold teeth and tanned skin.
Back in Kazan falls again, how young the city. Young couples stroll through the pedestrian zone, women in high heels, the men with handbags. One in three people will be under 30. More than 100,000 students studying at 15 universities. As once Lev Tolstoy and Lenin. The center is burning in the summer sun. You eat ice cream, can run cool water over the face. The calm seems to have found their home in Kazan. And even though the pedestrian zone is under constant sonication. Slogans, Russian Popschnulzen, Europe's "Final Countdown" droning on that summer Sunday by Kazan. And no one seems to . Disturb Even this may be a miracle.
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arrival
Lufthansa flies from Frankfurt to Samara to Kazan .
Holidays
There are many hotels in Kazan in different categories. The modern Chaliapin Palace Hotel is located in the center, rooms from 90 €. www.shalyapin-hotel.ru
Sabantuy
The Tartar summer festival takes place at the beginning of the summer (21 June) instead. There is a central Sabantuy hard near Kazan, many towns celebrate their own festivals.
information
www.gokazan.com
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BU: When Sabantuy, the Tatar summer festivalhttp://www.berlinonline.de / berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2010/0731/reise/0010/index.html
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