RT President Mintimer Shaimiev paid tribute to great opera singer Fyodor Shalyapin
13 February 2006, Monday
On February 13, President of Republic Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev placed flowers to F.I.Shalyapin’s monument on the occasion of 133rd – anniversary birthday of the great Russian singer and visited new hotel of Kazan “Shalyapin Palace”.
“Shalyapin is an honour for all Russian culture at all times”, - noted President Shaimiev.
Head of the republic and accompanying him inspected the hotel’s interior, listened chore singing of Kazan state conservatory. According to Mintimer Shaimiev, it is a great honour for owners of the hotel that it bears Shalyapin’s name. From the inside it is decorated with paintings and photos of the eminent singer and household utensils dated to early 20th century.
On 16 October in the Kazan Kremlin Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaymiev, who is also the Chairman of the Trustees Council of the regional Revival Fund, had a meeting with the Director General of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, who came to Kazan to take part in a ceremony of opening a new exposition “The Yusupovs. Luxury across the Centuries” at the Hermitage Kazan Exposition Center and which has been prepared especially for the 20th anniversary of the Hermitage’s first representational centre established in 2005 by celebrations of the Kazan Millennium.
On 28 August the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev took part in a plenary session of the National Assembly of the World Tatar Congress held with participation of about 1 thousand delegates from 68 regions of Russia and 27 foreign countries in the Tatar State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kazan’
On 20 June the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev attended horse races held at the International Equestrian Complex in Kazan and dedicated to Kazan Sabantuy.
On 6 June the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and the State Counselor of the republic Mintimer Shaimiev laid flowers to the monument of the Great Russian poet Aleksandr Pushkin by the Jalil State Opera and Ballet Theatre in Kazan.