A book presentation was held in the Gasprinskii Library. “French Letters” describe the author’s, i.e. Mr. Ismail Gasprinskii’s, impressions of France where he had been living for 3 years.

“French letters” is an original reflective narration of an Eastern personality attending completely foreign world of Western Europe. His encuituration was obvious: Mr. Gasprinskii is partial to what he sees and always eager to learn something new from the unusual society he happened to live in.

His main character, Mullah Abbas Fransowee, a Bay from Tashkent, illustrates the author’s firm opinion that “a well-educated Muslim is eager to enrich his high morals with a spacious approach to different problems; science and knowledge never shake his Muslim identity, but make him wiser and destroy prejudice and superstitious beliefs”.

“French Letters” were translated from Russian to French four years ago, and now the library is willing to devote the whole year to popularizing it.

“Our main aim is to introduce as many people as possible to reading in general and to Mr. Gasprinsii’s heritage in part,” — Ms. Esma Yunusova, the librarian, says.

It bears reminding that Ukraine and Turkey hold joint events in the memory of Ismail Gasprinskii as a prominent Crimean Tatar educator and public figure in 2014 under the aegis of UNESCO.

Elzara Yunusova, Simferopol