"The Kazan Governorate (Russian: \u041A\u0430\u0437\u0430\u0301\u043D\u0441\u043A\u0430\u044F \u0433\u0443\u0431\u0435\u0301\u0440\u043D\u0438\u044F; Tatar: Cyrillic \u041A\u0430\u0437\u0430\u043D \u0433\u0443\u0431\u0435\u0440\u043D\u0430\u0441\u044B, Latin Qazan gubernas\u0131; Chuvash: \u0425\u0443\u0441\u0430\u043D \u043A\u011B\u043F\u0435\u0440\u043D\u0438\u011B), or the Government of Kazan, was a governorate (a guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR from 1708\u20131920, with its seat in the city of Kazan."@en . . .