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Kazan tsarina Sjujumbike

oil on canvas 180 x 280 cm (48 x60 in.) 2000

This painting was ordered by President of the Tatarstan Republic (Russian Federation) M. Shaimiev and situated in Kazan Kremlin now.

        Some words about the painting.

You see the event that takes a place at the August, 1559 at the Kazan. It is the Kazan Tsarina Sjujumbike at the centre of the painting. Some month ago here husband Safa-girey has died. That’s why here face so sad. She was very clever, majestic and educated woman. She is meeting guests from different countries in Kazan Kremlin at the painting. There are some real figures at this painting. As example here government’s Head Oglan Kuchak (from the left with sabre). You can see a child at the left side. It is a son of Sjujumbike Utyamish. From the right at second plane you can see a Head of the clergy Kul Sharif (with rosary) that is talking with the poet Muhamad`yar. There are a many guests at the left side of the painting. It is ambassadors from Samarkand, Turkey, Moskow, Middle Asia, and Western Europe. Some years later Sjujumbike will  taking in to the captivity (you can see this story at my painting “Kazan Tsarina Sjujumbike in a captivity of Ivan the Terrible”). And at the autumn, 1552 the Kazan city was captured by Ivan the Terrible armies (you can see this story at my painting “Defence of the Kazan from Ivan the Terrible armies”).