Gabdulla Tukay (1886-1913)

"Tukay's Travels"

"...anyone with any interest in Tatar literature knows or must have heard about Tukay and his poetry. For a Tatar not to know him is virtually an impossibility and would be tantamount to a sin.

Although he died very young, just 27 years old, he left 12,000 lines of poetry. In his poems he treated different nationalistic, religious, social and personal themes. His poems are enjoyed by the young as well as the old. He was famous and popular to the extent that during his lifetime, his poems were widely memorised and turned into proverbs"

This below link is to a good summary of Gabdulla Tukay (in English, including a few poems translated ); his work and legacy.

http://www.intellcity.narod.ru/tukai2.htm