On 24 April 2022, a staff member of the department “Museum Street” of Bolgar Museum-Reserve Sagirova L. Sh. held an interactive event on “Oh mother tongue, the melodious language” for the students of Bolgar secondary school №2. The event was devoted to the birthday of a great Tatar writer G. Tukay.
G. Tukay was born in 1886 in the family of a Muslim clergyman. He was early deprived of his parents and was brought up by his relatives in foster families. Many of them were already living starving, and the boy turned out to be an “extra mouth”. He was not loved or petted. One day they put him out in the frost barefoot and forgot about him. Since then Tukay was prone to illnesses. The happiest period of his childhood passed in the village of Kyrlai, in the family of peasant Sagdi. Later Gabdulla was taken to Uralsk. Here he studied at a madrassa, took Russian language courses. In addition to his native Tatar, the poet spoke four other languages and was engaged in translations. In this city, he first began writing poems. Working in a printing house, he became a prominent journalist. Then he moved to Kazan. Here his creative abilities showed themselves most clearly. He became acquainted with the city’s literary elite, kept in touch with young aspiring poets and writers and continued to publish in well-known newspapers and magazines. The main direction of Tukay’s works at that time becomes humor and satire, and such works he writes for the magazines “Lightning” and “Zarnitsa”.
Many kind words were said about Gabdulla Tukay because he deserved it thanks to his unique works imbued with the spirit of a fighter for freedom and democracy, and at the same time, a manifestation of a subtle and vulnerable soul. Children virtually visited the Tukay Literary Museum where personal belongings of the poet are kept (tuybeteyka, faience box, traveling basket, cufflinks, inkwell etc.). It is worth noting that the Koran belonged to the grandfather of G. Tukay – Z. Amirov. The page has notes made with pencil. This Koran was published in St. Petersburg in 1868.

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