August 29 at 13.00 the exhibition "Bilyar. Autumn of 1236 » opens at the “Hazine” gallery

Artistic and historical reconstruction of the events of the autumn of 1236.

Organizers of the exhibition project: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The reason for the creation of this project was the publication of the book of the same name. Its author - archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences Konstantin Rudenko in collaboration with the famous artist Bulat Gilvanov recreated a little-known page of history - the heroic defense of Bilyar.

The exhibition will feature 18 original graphic sheets created by Bulat Gilvanov in 2016 for the book by Konstantin Rudenko.

The archaeological artifacts from the funds of the Bilyar Reserve, the National Museum of the RME after  T. Yevseyev, the Museum Complex of the KFU (fragments of jewelry, dishes, arrowheads), modern photographs of excavations and architectural remains of the once Great City, fragments of texts from the book increase the sense of authenticity and create a complete picture of the past events of the autumn of 1236.

It is symbolic that this project opens in the "Hazine" - the treasury of national art.

The exhibition will last until October 31, 2017.

Information: Bulat Alfirovich Gilvanov - a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, artist, decorator, film artist, screenwriter, poet - graduated from the graphic faculty of the St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. after  I.E. Repin. In the works    by  Bulat Gilvanov, two main areas: realistic painting (mainly historical paintings, which were created with the involvement of wide historical and archaeological material) and the original pictorial language developed by him on the basis of the study of folk and ancient Turkic art.