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| The Lutheran Church of St. Peter and Paul in Kazan |
The train arrived in
Kazan at 6 a.m. Moscow time (all times on Russian Rail Road schedules and
tickets are on Moscow time), which also happens to be local time here - three
hours behind Omsk, Tomsk, and Novosibirsk. I was met by Eduard, a member of the
Kazan Lutheran congregation, who drove me to the church,where a breakfast of
bread, ham, cheese, and tea was waiting for me. He had to leave to go to work
and then pick up Bradn at the airport at 9:00. So I happily sat in the church's
newly-renovated kitchen and continued my story. By 9:30 or 10:00 Bradn had
arrived, as had Vladimir Provorov, another of the final-year students during my
first year in St. Petersburg. Pastor David (a Russian pastor who arrived in
Kazan only in December of last year) gave us tour of the church, and then Bradn, Vladimir, Oleg (from the local congregation) and I had a walk around town in the rain.
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| Interior view. |
The
main attraction is the Kremlin (fortress) in the center of town, which
contains both an Orthodox Church and a Mosque. Kazan is located in the
Tatar Autonomous Republic, a component part of the Russian Federation.
It's history with Russia goes back to the 16th century when it was
conquered by Ivan IV (a.k.a. "the Terrible").
After our walk we had lunch at a restaurant in town and then Vladimir drove us the 3+ hours south to Ulyanovsk.
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