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Kazan Pays Tribute to Musa Jalil

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Kazan Pays Tribute to Musa Jalil


16.02.2010

Celebration of the 104th birth anniversary of an outstanding Tatar poet Musa Jalil kicked off in Kazan on February 15, Kultura television channel reports.

The celebrations started at the National Museum of Tatarstan, where two writer’s notebooks are kept. In these tiny self-made notebooks Musa Jalil wrote verses while staying in the Pletsenzee prison in Berlin. He died there on August 25, 1944.

In 1946, Nigmat Teregulov, a former prisoner-of-war, brought a slim pad with 60 closely-written Jalil’s poems to the Union of Writers of the Tatar Republic. A year later, Andre Timmermans (Belgium), who had shared a cell with the poet, sent another notebook with Jalil's poems to Kazan. The poems in those notebooks have since become widely known as The Moabit Notebooks. His verses were translated in seventy languages and were first published in Literaturnaya gazeta in 1953.

In the Soviet Union Jalil projects the image of a poet of courage. His name has become the symbol of courage, heroism and unbounded service to his country. In 1957 Musa Jalil was awarded Lenin Prize posthumously for the Moabit Notebook poetic cycle.

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