Contact Admin. By Aigul Bidanova in Culture on 21 August The latest find is correspondence between exhibition organisers and the West Siberian department of the Russian Geographical Society, explaining the importance of the upcoming exhibition, which was then being organised under the patronage of Her Highness the Grand Duchess Ksenia Alexandrovna, and requesting help in collecting exhibits.
Among the few who provided Kazakh folk attire, which was referred to at the time as Kyrgyz, was Ibrahim Kunanbayev Abai Kunanbaiuly , who sent the ethnic costumes of an adult man and a boy to St. Petersburg, which was then the capital of the Russian empire. Despite assurances, the owners were not given back the costumes, as they were lost after the exhibition.
They were, however, offered money in compensation instead. In , a letter in Arabic was found in the museum collections. After a careful study and translation of the message, it was confirmed to have been written by Abai to his son Magauyia, a student at Semipalatinsk University.
What remains includes the Zhidebay wintering grounds, two photographs, one lifetime portrait, the letter to his son and 60 household articles that he sent through the Russian exile Dolgopolov in for the museum, which opened in The most valuable of them were handed over in to the Abai museum opened through the efforts of Mukhtar Auezov.
The contributions of Abai Kunanbaiuly have endured not through his manuscripts, which simply did not survive, but thanks to the efforts of activists, including Alikhan Bukeikhanov, who published a collection of his works in Another activist, Murseit Bukeuly lived in a tent in Zhidebay more than a year, restoring the legacy of his great countryman. Young people learn family values, acquire sense of environmental responsibility through social life, says Slavic community leader Top News: Aktobe Region exports more than 20 tonnes beef to China, for first time Top News:.
