Ğaliäsğar Kamal (Ğaliäsğar Ğaliäkbär ulı Kamaletdinov,

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: Галиәсгар Галиәкбәр улы Камалетдинов, , , ''Galiaskar Kamal'') was a

writer, dramatist and playwright. The leading Tatar theater in

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is named after him.

Biography

Kamal was born on 6 January 1879 in the family of a furrier craftsman in

. He studied in the Kazan

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''Ğosmaniyä'' and ''Möxämmädiyä'' in 1889–1897. At the same time he studied the

Russian language Russian is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language belonging to the Balto-Slavic languages, Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. It is one of the four extant East Slavic languages, and is ...

in a three-years municipal school. The first play of Kamal was called ''The Unlucky Youth'' and it was published in 1900. The history of the Tatar Theater started with staging a play called ''The Pitiful''. He actively participated in the activity of ''Säyyär'' troupe as an actor and a playwright.

Literature

The creative activity of G. Kamal gained in scope after 1905, when being impressed by the events of the first Russian revolution, he wrote the plays ''The First Theater'', ''The Bankrupt'' and others.kazan1000
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References

External links

Galiaskar Kamal in Tatar electron library
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