Lyubov Speranskaya

Who is Lyubov Speranskaya?

Speranskaya Lyubov Lvovna is People's artist of the Republic of Tatarstan, member of Russian Artist's Union, the first woman-scenograph in Tatarstan, theatre artist, portraitist, graphic painter, ceramist, ethnographer, the participant of Great Patriotic War.

Living in the Leningrad, in 1941 she finished Leningrad State University, than she was mobilized for children's evacuation from seized Leningrad. She worked as a tutor until 1944 in remote village in Sarman district in the Republic of Tatarstan. There she opened national Tatar art. Singularity and charm of national art fascinated her for years. And first sketches had been appeared. She interested in origin of some elements of national art, character of national clothes and utensils.

As a result of many-years work in museum fonds in Kazan, Volga area and other cities the richest material had been collected. In 1972, after 25 years of work Kostyumi Kazanskikh Tatar album was published with great success. Professor N. Nadirov wrote: "This album is an illustrated history of national clothes". Similar opinion was told by A.X. Xalikov, A.G. Axmadullin, R.G. Moxammadova, etc. And still there is no a better work in this area.