Nazib Zhiganov Composer Museum

About museum

\r\nNazib Gayazovich Zhiganov (1911–1988) was a Hero of Socialist Labour, People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of three USSR State Prizes, laureate of the G. Tukay Republican Prize, founder and rector of the Kazan State Conservatory from 1945 to 1988 and a professor — he spent the last 17 years of his life in the house where the museum is located, and the surrounding environment conveys the atmosphere in which he lived and worked. The archive is of inestimable value — a unique collection of documents from the 1920s–1980s, including personal documents, manuscripts, books with the composer's annotations, dedication inscriptions from notable figures of literature and art, memoirs of contemporaries, a photo archive, and autographs of well-known cultural figures. The epistolary archive comprises several hundred documents, among them letters from D. Shostakovich, A. Khachaturian, T. Khrennikov, R. Shchedrin, B. Pokrovsky, N. Rakhlin, G. Litinsky. The credit for preserving the archives belongs to Zhiganov's wife, N. I. Zhiganova.