Contacts of Kazan business circles and the Tatar educator K. Nasyri
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https://doi.org/10.22378/2410-0765.2025-15-1.133-147Keywords:
Kayum Nasyri, Tatar enlightenment, Kazan trade and merchant circles, Aitov merchants, Kazakov merchants, Arslanov merchantsAbstract
The article, dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the Tatar scholar and encyclopedist Kayum Nasyri (1825–1902), highlights the contacts between the educator and the Tatar business circles of Kazan. In the second half of the 1850s – 1860s, Nasyri acted as a representative of the Moscow guild merchant, his elder brother Gabdelkhay. In the following decades, in most cases, the educator contacted entrepreneurs as a home tutor of the Russian language and secular subjects for their sons, as well as a translator of documents and a writer of petitions. It was these contacts that provided a stable income, part of which he invested in publishing his works. Only in the 1870s, several entrepreneurs – supporters of the dissemination of socially relevant information among Muslims – became partners with Nasyri as a publisher of his annual calendars. In general, the cooperation of booksellers with Nasyri was local in nature and was based on the conjuncture of the book market. For this reason, K. Nasyri was forced to publish works at his own expense and sell them himself.
For citation: Zagidullin I.K. Contacts of Kazan business circles and the Tatar educator K. Nasyri. From History and Culture of Peoples of the Middle Volga Region. 2025, vol.15, no.1, pp. 133–147. https://doi.org/10.22378/2410-0765.2025-15-1.133-147 (In Russian)
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