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On December 21 AC patrons got acquainted with Sultanmakhmut Toraigyrov’s biography. The title of the event were poetic lines taken from his literary heritage. Also they discussed the all Kazakhstani library action «Бір ел - бір кітап» «Одна страна - одна книга» «One country – one book».

Sultanmakhmut Toraigyrov is a great Kazakh poet-democrat. He was born in 1893–died in 1920. When he was four Sultanmakhmut lived in Bayan-Aul district of Pavlodar region. When he was thirteen he started writing poems. He wanted to study in the cultural centres, he read a lot striving to obtain modern complete education. However he had to start working. First he worked as a school teacher, and then since the autumn of 1913 he was a secretary in the editorial staff of the first Kazakh magazine “Aikap”. In the magazine he published his poems, publication and essays.

Since 1914 he worked as a teacher again in Bayan-Aul in the autumn of 1916 he managed to take courses in Tomsk. Those years he formed his writing credo:

“Having entered the way of the search for truth I will not recede, I will bear all the difficulties, I will overcome the fatigue and I will go through all the misunderstanding. And I will be faithful to my ideas”, says the poet.

Thinking about what Kazakh people need, Sultanmakhmut gives the priority to education, culture, science and engineering. In his opinion, education and training must pay great attention not only to body care but also to conscience, soul and spirituality. Without this, none of the technical achievements will make people happy. Toraigyrov is the author of one of the first Kazakh novels “Beautiful Kamar” (1933), one of the founders of this genre in Kazakh literature.Sultanmakhmut wrote about the destiny of Kazakh women and promoted their emancipation. His lyrics are rich with the philosophical thoughts but his poetry quality was revealed especially in poems “Life of Wandring” (“Adaskan Omir”) and “Poor Man” (“Kedei”, 1922). It is the first poem, in which each chapter is related to a certain life period of a man and which criticizes social injustice and violence together with general philosophical and didactic thoughts.

Level of Toraigyrov’s philosophical thoughts during that period can be judged by the titles of his articles and poems: “Is This Justice?”, “Why do I Live?”, “Lost Life”, “During the storm”, “Belief” and others. After the event many library users took Sultanmakhmut Toraigyrov’s books from our library.