On 17 August 2024, an employee of the department ‘Museum Street’ of Bolgar Museum-Reserve Sagirova L. Sh. held an event ‘Kul Gali and his heritage’ for a group of mothers of the participants of Special Military Operation and volunteers of the ‘People’s Front’ from the village of Nurlaty, Zelenodolsky district of the Republic of Tatarstan.
Kul Gali is a poet of Volga Bulgaria, the author of the lyric-epic poem ‘Kyssa-i-Yusuf’. Biographical information about Kul Gali is few and contradictory. Kul Gali was born in Volga Bulgaria. For many years he wandered around the cultural centers of the Muslim East (Syria, Jerusalem, Mecca), lived for a long time in Bilyar, Bolgar, Suvar, Kashan. It is assumed that he died in 1236 in Bilyar during the Mongol invasion.
The poem ‘Kyssa-i-Yusuf’ was written in 1233. The linguistic features of the work indicate that it was created in the Lower Volga region where there was active ethno-cultural interaction between the Oghuz and Kipchaks. The plot of the poem is based on the biblical and Quranic legend about the beautiful Yusuf. The main message of the poem is that a person, who has gone through all hardships and deprivations and managed to preserve love for the world and people around him, kindness and sense of justice, as well as preserving his own dignity in the most difficult life situations, will be repeatedly rewarded for his patience and kindness.
The participants learnt about the biography of the great poet and his literary work, the summary of the work and its peculiarities, the historical conditions in which the poem was written and its significance in the history of culture of the Volga Tatars.
Thirty-two people attended the event.

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