Tukay is a peoples soul
On February 26, 1913 the owner of the Kazan hospital on Voznesenskya Street Medical Doctor Girsh Klyachkin hospitalized exhausted consumptive boy Gabdulla Tukay. His last thirty-six days, the poet lived near this doctor. The owner...
The first monument to Tukay in Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic For the first time, the issue of building a monument to the great poet was raised several days after his death. Then, in 1913,...
After a meeting with the Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region Sergei Morozov in March this year, there was a sightseeing tour for us, editors, in the historic downtown of Ulyanovsk where, luckily, pre-Revolution buildings survived....
I asked myself the question, why they worship these persons, and exalt them to the skies? Undoubtedly, after a long life they have left a great work. However, the majority of them were great some...
Of course, there are writers out there, whose names we remember with sadness and miss them wholeheartedly. Chuvash’s  Michael Sespel ‘ took his life at age of 22 as a protest against wrongful allegations,...
The Tatar music — music of the ancient Turks. They have absorbed the feelings of ancient ancestors who lived in the vast steppes. No wonder, even the Chinese had recognized them, even more — they...
Tukai — a gift given to us by God, it is — a clear mirror of ourselves. His spiritual heritage left to us is not limited by any boundaries. His measure — eternity. Together...
Mintimer Shaimiev, The First President of The Republic of Tatarstan: Words fail to fully express the tremendous importance of Tukay to the Tatar people, Turkic world and Eastern countries. His poetry is a dwelling...
Ivan Nekhoda, Ukrainian poet: The Ukrainian people are familiar not only with the Tatarstan heroes of the war, but also with its pen heroes. My nation knows and honours favourite poets and writers of the...
Louis Aragon, French writer: It is impossible that such a rich literature would not be based on the rich legacy of the past. Twenty years ago Kavi Nadzhmi told me about a classical poet Gabdulla...
