People's poet Gabdulla Tukay occupies an exceptional place in the history of the Tatar people, in the history of its culture. By the power of influence on the spiritual development of its people, by the historical significance of its activities, Tukai should be attributed to a wonderful galaxy of cultural figures of the peoples of Russia of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as: in Azerbaijan - Akhundov, in Armenia - Nalbandyan, in Kazakhstan - Abai Kunanbaev, in North Ossetia - Kosta Khetagurov. Like them, Tukai managed to answer the main, essential questions of his time, on the solution of which the future of the nation, the further fate of Tatar culture depended...