Within the program “Kazan – the cultural capital of the Turkic world in 2014” on July 22 at 16.00, the RT National Museum of the holds a presentation of the electronic exposition dedicated to Gayaz Iskhaki.
Support in organizing the exhibition and electronic fund has been rendered by “Ayaz Tahir Turkistan Idel Ural”. Here for the first time materials about G. Iskhaki from the National Museum of Tatarstan, literary-memorial A.M. Gorky museum, RT National Archives, G. Kamal TSAT Museum will be exhibited for the first time.
Memorabilia of Tatar writer and public figure Gayaz Iskhaki displayed at the exhibition “Gayaz Iskhaki: pages of biography and creativity”, were transferred to the National Museum of the Republic of Tatartsan in 1997 and 2002 from the Office of the President through humanitarian contacts with charitable fund named after Abdul Waheed Menger and its president – the daughter of a Turkish businessman Ahmed Wali Menger by Safie Imre. Safia Imre then brought from Turkey and gave personal belongings of G. Iskhaki to Tatarstan President M. Shaimiev, which later were committed to the National Museum of Tatarstan.
An important place at the exhibition occupy lifetime editions by Gayaz Iskhaki and research of Tatarstan scholars, devoted to his art, as well as exhibits, recently filled a collection of the National Museum of Tatarstan.
July 20, Kazan will be visited by President of the Foundation “Ayaz Tahir Turkistan Idel Ural” Ms. Tulay Duran. The itinerary of Mrs. T. Duran includes visit to Chistopol Historical and Memorial and ethnographic complex of Gayaz Iskhaki in a village Kutlushkino. The museum opened in 1999 in his homeland. The exhibition shows memorabilia related to the family G. Iskhaki.
July 22, a roundtable at the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan to be held on the problems of studying the legacy G. Iskhaki.
Ms. Duran Tulay present the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan unique materials related to the life and work of G. Iskhaki, one of the founders of modern Tatar literature.
