The Tobolsk Kremlin is very beautiful and very ancient; its antiquity is so real that you can sense it. The Chuvashia Cape is another beautiful place near Tobolsk; where Khan Kuchum Ermak defeated the army, is also worth visiting.
The Kremlin – the walled city – of old Tobolsk. It's the oldest stone Kremlin in Siberia, built at the beginning of1587, and on its promontory two hundred feet or more above the floodplain of the Tobol and Irtysh rivers, it rises skyward like the fabled crossroads of Asiatic caravan traffic that it used to be.
What I want in a city is partly a mirage like quality, an elusive shimmering you can see and dream about from afar. The old part of Tobolsk provides that, with the Kremlin visible at a distance and the humdrum structures of the city not prominent at all. The walls of the Kremlin are white, fifty feet high, with conically shaped towers at each corner. St. Sophia Cathedral, inside the wall, has a large central tower and three subsidiary ones, and their main domes are a light blue with gilded dots on them and gold filigree at the top and bottom, and above are smaller gold domes supporting tall Orthodox crosses.