06/05/2025
KSUAE International students visited the expositions of the National Art Gallery "Khazine"
As part of the educational program on May 6, students visited the National Art Gallery "Khazine" in Kazan.
Students from Turkey, Tunisia, Mauritania, Morocco, Ecuador, Peru, Madagascar, Côte d'Ivoire, Turkmenistan got acquainted with the following exhibitions of the gallery:
1. Exposition of works by the great Russian artist Nikolai Ivanovich Feshin (born in Kazan) from the collection of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan. The exhibition presents works from the Kazan period of the master's life. The pearl of the collection is his portrait gallery and canvases dedicated to scenes of the life of the peoples of the Kazan province.
2. The exhibition "Fates Carved in Stone" dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The exhibition combines fine art, sculpture, archival materials and multimedia technologies. It presents works created by both direct participants in the hostilities and post-war artists who sought to convey the full drama of the events.
3. The exhibition "Life and Work of Baki Urmanche", an artist and founder of Tatar professional fine art. The museum exhibits the master's paintings, sculptural portraits, illustrations for Tatar fairy tales. The exhibition also presents the artist's personal belongings.
Russian first-year students of KSUAE helped to understand the content of the works presented at the exhibitions as part of their educational program in the Russian language. They led international students through the exhibits, dividing them into small groups, stopping at the paintings and telling about their meaning. During the excursion, foreign students actively learned and practiced new Russian artistic vocabulary.
The international students were delighted with their visit to the gallery and expressed great gratitude to the organizers for such an opportunity to touch our history and culture.
The News is submitted by International Relations Dept of the University.