The Kazan Museum Complex opened the exhibition "Colours of Sabantuy" from the collection of the Golden Fund at the Volga University.
The exhibition is held within the framework of co-operation between the Volga Region University and the Kazan Museum Complex. Let us remind you that the co-operation agreement between the parties was signed in November 2023.
This exposition has become the largest of the joint exhibitions held. The theme of the Sabantuy was not chosen by chance. The year 2024 will be remembered for the BRICS Games to be held in Kazan, and the exhibition is aimed at familiarising both foreign athletes and representatives of other Russian regions with Tatar culture.
The exhibition is dedicated to the Sabantui holiday and features arts and crafts and works by Tatarstan artists. The exhibition includes works by applied artists Sofia Kuzminykh, Svetlana Garbuzova and Naila Kumysnikova.
Creators in their paintings refer to the heritage of the Volga Bulgaria and the Kazan Khanate, show the labour and traditions of Turkic craftsmen: patterned boots - ichigas, bags, pillows.
One of the traditional national arts - embroidery - is widely represented in the exposition. Thus, the exhibition exhibits reconstructed historical female costumes of Kazan Tatars made by Luiza Faskhutdinova, an applied artist. She works in the technique of traditional Tatar gold embroidery and in all kinds of hand embroidery: ironwork, tambour embroidery, carpet stitch, ear technique. Early samples of towels from the funds of the Kazan Museum Complex, which contain all the colour and ornamental richness of Tatar embroidery, are presented at the exhibition.
The exhibition will be open to the public until 30 December.
Text: Adelina Khramova
Photo: Polina Zemchikhina
