The biography of Suyumbik is the queen

According to her, Ivan the Terrible, having heard about the fabulous beauty of the Kazan Queen, sent his matchmakers to Kazan. The proud beauty immediately refused the Russian king. Then Ivan the Terrible decided to use force - he went to Kazan with a huge army and besieged the city. Suyumbike, in order to save her subjects, agreed to get married, but on one condition - if the Russian king can build a high tower in Kazan in seven days.

The delighted king accepts its conditions, and construction begins. At the end of the seventh day, the tower was ready. Then Suyumbike rose to the upper tier and rushed upside down. So she died, not wanting to fall into the hands of the hated king. In memory of his glorious daughter, the Tatar people called the tower her name. Despite the existing historical facts, this is nothing more than a beautiful legend.

It has long been known for a long time that Suyumbike was married to Khan Safa-Girey, and after the expulsion of the Safa-Girey from Kazan to the Khan's throne, Shah-Ali took away, who took the queen in Kasimov, where she quietly and imperceptibly survived her century. There you can also find her grave. About what myths around the historical personality of the Kazan Queen and what is true was told within the framework of the S.

Marjani Institute of History of the Scientific and Practical Conference “Tatar Queen Suyumbike: from historical reality to historical memory”. The conference was dedicated to the celebration of the flight from the birth of the Kazan Queen Suyumbike. Brief certificate: Suyumbike - the daughter of the noble Nogai Bek Yusuf, a descendant of the famous idege. After the death of the Safa-Girey, she became the ruler of the Kazan Khanate-as a regent of his young son of Utymysh-Girey.

In the year, the queen was forced to leave Kazan with her son. It is noteworthy that Suyumbike is one of the first Muslim rulers, heads of states in the Islamic world. In the historical memory of the Tatar people, her fate symbolically intertwined with the tragic fate of the Kazan Khanate. For the Tatars, this figure is not only woven into folk legends over the centuries, but has become a model, the standard of female beauty, patriotism and selfless service to its people.

With a welcoming speech to the audience, among whom were not only representatives of the scientific community, but also journalists, historians, students and all those who are interested in the Tatar rich heritage were addressed by the director of the Institute of History named after Marjani »Murad Zargishiev. The Nogai Princess becomes the Kazan Khansha, the wife of the khan from the Crimean dynasty, and then the narrowed Kasimov khan - this is such a kind of interweaving of the former parts of one of the great powers of the Middle Ages.

Soon this interweaving will become impossible due to the disappearance of individual khanates from the face of the earth, the conquest of others. Of course, the close attention of historians, ethnographers to this figure of Tatar and Kazan history will remain for a very long time. It’s good that such conferences are held from time to time. In turn, Murad Zargishiyev emphasized the importance of studying his own history, in which there are many examples of outstanding personalities who have made a significant contribution not only at the present stage, but also during the years of the Golden Horde, in the era of the Kazan Khanate.

As for Suyumbike, this is one of the outstanding examples of a historical personality, an important symbol not only in the history of the Kazan Khanate, but also of the Nogai Horde. The Nogai Princess, the mother of the heir to the Kazan throne, the wife of the khan, the woman, the politician - in these hypostles she entered our history and historical memory, becoming a symbol of a huge era.

In the memory of the Nogai people, the image of Suyumbike is connected with its role as a bold, strong -willed woman, statesman, mother, mourning her son and spouse, a woman who at the head of the Kazan Khanate at a minute of great danger, who made a lot to preserve the national independence of the Tatar people. She combined the three Straordynaya states of the Kazan Khanate, the Nogai Horde and the Crimean Khanate, which is important for our historical memory.

Suyumbike was and remains a cultural bridge connecting these peoples, cultures. We should not share our common story, spreading it into national apartments. In our memory, such historical personalities as Suyumbica, which simultaneously for several peoples have become powerful symbols are alive. At the plenary meeting of the conference, special attention was also paid to the book “Kazan Queen Suyumbike in the history of the peoples of Russia”, as well as the role of the Suyumbike tower in Kazan as a symbol of statehood.

During the work of sectional meetings, the participants in the event raised such difficult issues and topics as the role of women in the political life of the Golden Horde and Tatar Khanates, the place of women in the cultural and daily life of the Tatars of the XIII -XVIII centuries. Separate performances tried to reveal the image of Suyumbike in the historical memory of the Tatars and Tatar culture.

The issues of source studies of medieval Turkic-Tatar states in the context of gender history were also considered. Ilmira Gafiyatullina.