The Tension Of Memory: Reclaiming The Kazan Kremlin
The Tension Of Memory: Reclaiming The Kazan Kremlin

Summary/Abstract: On a Sunday morning in mid-October of 2009, a few hundred Tatar na¬tional activists converge on Kazan to take part in the twentieth annual Day of Memory in honor of their ancestors who perished while defending the city in their ultimate defeat by the Muscovite troops of Ivan IV (“the Terrible”) in 1552. As in years past, the public spectacle begins on Freedom Square with a namaz led by an imam. The Muslim prayer is followed by fiery speeches delivered, in Tatar, by nationalist leaders who address a crowd brandishing a motley array of flags, among them the official green-white-red tricolor of Tatarstan and the solid green banner of Islam.

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