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Kayum Nasyri
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Kayum Nasyri was a 19th-century Tatar scholar-ethnographer, writer, and educator. He was born in the village of Verkhniye Shirdany in the Kazan Governorate into the family of a well-known theologian and calligrapher. He was educated at the Kazan madrasa "Kasimia", after which he taught the Tatar language at the Kazan Theological School and Seminary. Subsequently, Nasyri founded and headed the first Russian-Tatar school in Kazan. He sought to bring Tatar and Russian cultures closer together and opposed national isolation. Nasyri began publishing in 1860.
Nasyri was a prolific writer, the author of the first popular-science children's publication "Na dosuge" (1860), the novella "Kabusnama" (1881), the study "Beliefs and Rituals of the Kazan Tatars" (1880), and the seminal work "Fruits for Conversationalists on Literature" (1884). Nasyri laid the foundations for methods of teaching the Tatar and Russian languages, and also wrote the first Tatar textbooks on various subjects, including mathematics, geography, and history. Kayum Nasyri died in Kazan in 1902.
Date of birth
14 February 1825
Date of death
20 August 1902
Occupation
Writer