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Take a walk on the Arbat Kazan - Bauman Street, tourists are sure to have photographed several unusual sculptural objects. One of the most beloved is the Cat of Kazan, a monument to a huge imposing cat that epitomizes both a real history and its fabulous incarnation.

There is a monument in Kazan at the intersection of Bauman and Musa Jalil streets, and it's simply impossible not to notice it.

A valiant cat, Kazan Cat Kazan
Valyazhny cat
Valyazhny cat in all its glory, Kazan Cat Kazansky
Valyazhny cat in all its glory
A well-fed three-meter cat with a well-fed benevolent smile I lay down on the couch in the summer-house. Cat Kazansky scratching his pussy with cunning squint and turning his mustache, glancing at the mouse, mousing on the dome of the arbor.

"Kazan cat: mind Astrakhan, Siberian mind" - this inscription can be read at the base of the sculptural composition, and it is dedicated to the mythical cat Alabrysu, whose the glory of agility and the ability to catch mice seemed to have reached even the then capital of St. Petersburg. It was rumored that the Kazanians were obliged to Kazan by the legendary decree of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna, who became one of the legends of the city.

In reality, the Empress, being in Kazan in the 40s of the 17th century, noticed that there are no mice in the city, and she wanted to write from Kazan 30 cats to carry out service for catching rodents in the chambers of the Winter Palace

Since then, Kazan cats have become comic book characters of the time - popular prints, and still statuettes of seals in skullcaps are a favorite souvenir from Kazan.

Cat The Kazan. "I want to know with Michael Shirvindt"
Cat The Kazan work of sculptor Igor Bashmakov appeared on Bauman Street in 2009, adding to this main pedestrian street of Kazan even greater attractiveness and fun

As for the real descendants of those legendary 30 cats sent in St. Petersburg, so they still faithfully and truly serve in the Hermitage, protecting the artistic values ​​stored there from mice and rats. April 1 staff of Russia's largest museum, the Day of the March Cat - a traditional celebration of the Hermitage cats

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October 14, 2014 Natalia.
was (a) here in October 2014
arrogant, big-bellied, luxury Kazan cat - a symbol of not only Bauman street, but the whole of Kazan. The photo next to him, perhaps, the main thing that needs to be done on this street. Well, caress fat stomach, of course (not your own, the cat).