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This is the [emphasize] largest city to have the zilant as its symbol, which some sources claim is the beast being slain on another city’s coat of arms. After a 1579 fire in this city, its archbishop Gourias was led by a young girl (15[1])named Matrona to the buried location of a long-lost object donated by Germanos II. The regent Söyembikä (“say-yem-bee-KAH”) allegedly threw herself (15[1])from a tower of this non-Moscow city’s kremlin. Both Dmitry Pozharsky and (*) Mikhail Kutuzov credited military successes to praying to an icon of the Theotokos named for this city. (-5[1])Along with the conquest of a city to its south, the architects Barma and Postnik (10[1])were allegedly blinded (-5[1])after designing a (10[1])cathedral in Moscow (10[1])celebrating the conquest (10[1])of this (10[1])non-Astrakhan city. For 10 points, Ivan the Terrible gained access to the Volga by conquering what capital of Tatarstan? (0[1])■END■ (10[1])

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