Kazan

Ivan the Terrible took Kazan in 1552 and the city has been negotiating that fact ever since; today the Qol Sharif mosque and the Annunciation Cathedral stand inside the same white kremlin walls, and both languages appear on the metro signs. Echpochmak and chak-chak are the local table, and see the Temple of All Religions, an unfinished private folly of sixteen faiths.