Роль Казанского университета в изучении духовной культуры татар Поволжья
The Role of Kazan University in the Study of the Spiritual Culture of the Volga Tatars

Summary/Abstract: The role of Kazan University in the study of the spiritual culture of the Volga Tatars in 1900–1920 was analyzed. Since the foundation of Kazan University, the peoples of the Volga region, including the Tatars, have been of particular research interest. Kazan University has had a number of departments, scientific societies, and museums dedicated to their ethnography. Notably, this paper does not address the full role of Kazan University in the study of the Tatar ethnography. The chronological framework of the study covers the period from the early 20th century up to the middle of the 1920s. Special attention was paid to the research of scientific, publishing, and expedition activities of members of the Society of Archeology, History, and Ethnography, who investigated the spiritual culture of the Volga Tatars during the period under study. The importance of the collections of the Ethnographic Museum in casting light on the spiritual life of the Tatars, as well as of the teaching, research, educational and cultural activities of Kazan University were considered. The main reasons for the decline in the intensity of ethnographic research on the spiritual culture of the Tatars at Kazan University in the 1920s were discussed.

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