mininn

Updated: May 22, 2025

The residence of the governor of the district, the courts of law, and the citadel are within the Kremlin, where there is also a fine monument to the memory of Mininn and Pojarski, the two patriots who liberated the country from the Poles in 1612. The Kremlin, like that at Moscow, is situated on an elevation overlooking the town and the broad valley of the Volga.

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