Nikolai Ivanovich Il'minskii was a Russian professor of Turkic languages at the Kazan University. He is known as the "Enlightener of Natives", due to his work with native Tatars on behalf of the Russi
The Tatars are a group of Turkic speaking peoples found across Eastern Europe and Northern Asia who bear the name "Tatar".
Orkhon inscriptions in Old Turkic (replica)
Ottoman miniature of the 1566 Szigetvár campaign showing Ottoman troops and Crimean Tatars as vanguard
Volga Tatars in traditional clothing
Tatar women in Kazan, Tatarstan