FATIH EMIRHAN’S LETTERS

Fatih Emirhan is one of the prominent figures of Tatar literature especially in prose in the late 19th and early 20th century. Emirhan had a stroke in his twenties and continued his life in a wheelchair. Emirhan also worked in journalism and supported many writers and poets. He wrote letters to R？zvan ？brahimov ( a friend of him from his madrasah) , ？smail Aitov to Mecit Gafuri and many other names. These letters belonging to Emirhan are kept in the archives of Kazan, language, literature and history institute of SSSR Science Academy. Hismatullin published some of these letters in the January issue, 1966 dated in the journal of ‘Kazan Utlar？’ on the occasion of the eighth year of the author's birth. In these letters sent to the immediate surroundings of Fatih Emirhan, there is a lot of information about his life and his literary activities