Abai, the Tatars and the house of the Bekmetov merchants (a few remarks on the book “Abai: The Severity of the Flight” by N. Anastasiev)
https://doi.org/10.26907/2311-2042-2021-16-1-103-126
Abstract
The article studies the biography of Abai Kunanbayev (1845–1904), more precisely, the particular aspects of its representation in the Russian publishing space. In 2008, by order of the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan, a new Russian systemic biography of Abai was published in the series “The Life of Remarkable People”: The book “Abai: The Severity of the Flight” by the famous Russian Americanist N. Anastasyev (Moscow: “Molodaia Gvardiia”, Astana: “Folio”, 383 p.). This book makes a favorable impression owing to the involved historical and cultural material, its thoughtful composition and literary language. However, its event scheme and biographical outline have one notable “gap” among other ones, which is connected with the early life of the Kazakh literature classic. Nothing is said about the stay of young Abai and his father Kunanbay Uskenbaev in the Karkaraly house of the Tatar merchant Khaliulla Khamitovich Bekmetov, described in the documentary novel “The Way of Abai” by M. Auezov, which the author actively and reasonably refers to on other occasions. Meanwhile, the fact of close business and kinship-family relations between Abai’s father (agha-sultan of the Karkaralinskaya volost) and Khaliulla Bekmetov deserves special attention, as it contains indirect information about the nature of Abai’s rising interest in books and educational traditions. The Tatar cultural context as a whole must be taken into account in order to understand the Kazakh public consciousness of the 19th–early 20th centuries.
About the Author
R. Bekmetov
Kazan Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Rinat Ferganovich Bekmetov
18 Kremlyovskaya Str., Kazan, 420008
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Bekmetov R. Abai, the Tatars and the house of the Bekmetov merchants (a few remarks on the book “Abai: The Severity of the Flight” by N. Anastasiev). Tatarica. 2021;16(1):103-126. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2311-2042-2021-16-1-103-126
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