October 10, 2024. Lecture “Calligraphy lessons”.

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On October 10, 2024, an employee of the Bolgar Museum-Reserve N. R. Galimullina gave an interactive lecture “Calligraphy lessons” for 16 young visitors from the city of Ulyanovsk.
Important sources in the study of the written culture of the Bulgars are archaeological materials, which appear to researchers as concrete living writings together with tools and materials of ancient writing. Not infrequently inscriptions are found on individual household items, products of craftsmen, potters. Inscriptions are often found on metal jewelry: women’s copper and silver bracelets, rings, mirrors. The first material for writing of the ancestors of the modern Tatars-Bulgars was stone. They also wrote on waxed boards and specially processed birch bark, scratching with bone rods resembling Old Russian “pisala”. During the heyday of Volga Bulgaria, paper became the main material for writing. Written monuments – manuscripts of the Bulgar period are almost not preserved, only their late lists have reached us. Bulgar epigraphic monuments are well preserved up to our time, and from the archaeological point of view, they are written sources.
During the event, the pupils learned by the example of the exposition of the Museum of Bulgarian Civilization how writing developed in our region, starting from the ancient period and up to the present day, how writing utensils were improved. The children enjoyed trying out ancient writing instruments used by our distant ancestors: wax tablets, reed sticks, bamboo kalam, goose and metal ink pens. The students were interested in the interactive event, asked many questions and demonstrated their knowledge of the topic.

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