Collection of the family Valieffs: the fate of the Tatar emigration

On September 12 at 3pm,  the  RT  National Museum of RT within the museum project "From Private Collections" opens  an exhibition "The collection of the Valieffs family: the fate of the Tatar emigration" where items from the personal collection and archive of the Valieffs family from Australia will be presented.

Our compatriot - an amazing creative personality, artist and writer Safiya Valieff - brought to Kazan and transferred to the funds of the RT  National Museum  carefully stored items related to the history of her family, as well as her own paintings and drawings. Among the family relics - homespun towels, namazlyki, charshau and kashaga late XIX - early XX centuries from the wedding dowry mother.

At the end of the 19th century, the ancestors of Safiya-khanum emigrated from Kazan province to China, then moved to Australia in the middle of the 20th century. In the family, Tatar traditions and customs, passed from parents to children, have been  preserved. Three representatives of the Valieffs family - Suyungul Chanysheva, Gaisha Maski, Safia Valieff - became famous writers. All generations of this Tatar family make a significant contribution to the preservation of the Tatar language and culture outside of its historical homeland.

The literary and artistic work by  Safiya Valieff reflects the nostalgia for the Motherland of the ancestors and the love of the country where her family lives, the memory of her parents and the pages of the history of the Tatar people. She did her best to make the Tatar culture famous and developed in Australia, a country 13 thousand kilometers from Tatarstan.

Love fr the Motherland, the preservation of high moral ideals, the transfer of national traditions to new generations is the main credo of Safia Valieff's creativity.

The opening of the exhibition will be a significant event in the cultural life of Kazan and is a continuation of the activities of the National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan on the formation of collections related to the Tatar diasporas and the fate of our compatriots living abroad.