Bu-Yurgan kitabs. Chapter 11
IDkar was very touched by my arrival, appreciating my confidence in him. Having learned about my desire to renounce the title of the Kazan seid, taken in emergency circumstances in order to subdue Safa Challam, he told me: “I leave this title to you, because I decided to keep only the title of “menla ...” He agreed to satisfy my request and ordered me to approve Syuyunbiku and his son on the throne of the Kazan Ulugbeks ...
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In 1542, Syuyumbika asked Kara-Muslim Iskander to draw me with her, her daughter and her tutor, the widow of Atalik Halima. Iskander, who painted the faces of the Christian gods before his captivity, prayed and painted us so wonderfully that I persuaded him to draw the same picture for me. After Syuyunbiki's approval, he painted, on her order for Kul-Ashraf, the Khan's Court with warriors on the wall and above it - Baradzha, a month and stars. Among the stars I made this inscription:
Let our menla and kan Yadkar know,
That the brave ghazis of Shahri Gazan
Led by the khan, ulans and mirzas
Without any doubts
Will give their lives
And the lives of their wives and children
For being unshakable on earth
The Bulgar State is a stronghold of Islam,
Shakhri Gazan - the stronghold of Bulgar,
The laws and customs of the Bulgar Muslims...
She herself went with me to Cheremshan to thank Yadkar for the honor done to her. We found Menla in Alabuga, where he held a festive prayer ... Usually reserved in the manifestation of his feelings, Kul-Ashraf, having received her gift - a drawing of Iskander with my poems - became very excited and asked about her wishes. Bika said to this that all her dreams had come true and she only prays to the kan for Ak-Balyk's forgiveness. The menla gave this forgiveness immediately, and the salchibashi immediately appeared in Alabuga and brought the confession ... On his ship, Yadkar, together with us, crossed to Yar Challi, where he consecrated the mosque built by the son of Inal Vasyl Atna-bek. People began to call her “Atna-Jamig” ... Then we went to the capital. And Kazan is my favorite city, so I will allow myself to interrupt the story here for a brief description of it ...
Three large parts stand out in it: Shahri Gazan - this is what since the time of Azan has been a single fortress on Bogyltau, as well as internal and external baliks, one more beautiful than the other ...
And in the Kazan wall there are such towers on Bogyltau: Tyumen, Kabak, New Chirmyshskaya, Mir-Gali, Khanskaya, Elbegen, Upper Isbel. And all these towers, except for the Tyumen one, are from Yugarykerman. Previously, the Kabakskaya and Verkhneisbelskaya towers were connected by a wall with the Chirmysh tower or Old Chirmyshskaya in the middle, behind which, along it, across the whole of Bogyltau, there is the Tazik ditch. And now this ditch is unattended and half-filled...
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And from the Upper Isbel, the wall goes down to the Lower Isbel tower, which stands at the foot of Bogyltau. From these gates it goes to the Left Kaves, Middle Kaves and Right Kaves towers, from them to the Left Arskaya, Middle Arskaya and Right Arskaya towers, from them to the Kan tower at the foot of Bogyltau, from it to the Upper Kan on Bogyltau, from from it - to the Upper Nogaiskaya on Bogyltau, from it - to the Lower Nogaiskaya at the foot of Bogyltau, from it - to the Korym tower on the right bank of the Bulak. From these gates, the wall goes along the same bank of the Bulak to the Atalykov tower, and from it it rises again to Bogyltau to the Tyumen tower.
The Su-Manara tower with two lower stone floors stands separately from the wall, near the confluence of the Bulak and the Kazan-su, and is tied to the wall only by a palisade. Inside is its key and a wheel device for raising its water to the fourth floor of this tower, from where it goes through pipes to Yugary Kerman. And for the pipes from the tower in Yugary Kerman, an underground passage was made through which people can also pass. The large wheel of the device is rotated by a horse walking in a circle inside the tower ... And in the upper part of the tower, which looks like a minaret, a fire is lit at night to guide ships and boats.
Fire for ships is also made on the towers of the Kara-Idel island of Tazik, Bish-Balty, Tash ~ Kerman, Alabuga and others standing by the rivers. And all these towers are also called “Ship Lights”… And between the towers of Su-Manara and Atalik there is Uram Tashayak, surrounded by a palisade adjoining the wall. And here, among other things, the mosque "Tuba", muncha ... "Dair", the tavern of the merchant Salih, after whom one of the towers of Yugara Kerman was named "Kabakskaya", and the house of Russian ambassadors.
And on the other side of the Bulak, opposite this uram, the Tashayak fair is held from spring to autumn of each year. Its place is not fortified, and there are several houses and taverns with shops and hotels ... Between Tashayak and the place opposite the Korym Gates there is a Kuraish balik with the Dzhilki horse market, the Hay market and the Pechen Yorty caravanserai. And here, mostly Nogais and steppe Crimeans always stop, which is why the gates closest to it are called Nogai and Crimean. Here, from the remarkable, in addition to those already mentioned, there are the mosques "Utyz", "Basma" and "Dzhilki". The balik is surrounded by a rampart and a wooden wall located in front of it…
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And in Yugary Kerman - the Khan's Court, adjacent to the Khan's tower, the Hyp-Gali palace ... Here, near the Mir-Gali tower, the Mir-Gali mosque is located, and next to it is the tomb of Khan Mohammed-Amin Ijim. In front of the Khan's Court there is a small Garden of Eden, behind it is a square, and behind it is a large Mohammed-Alam or Kul-Ashraf mosque.
It is two-tiered and eight-minaret. Its lower tier with two floors is square in shape, the upper one, with one floor, is octagonal. And the upper tier ends with a beautiful dome in the form of a Bulgar crown. At the corners of the lower tier there are one-story and polygonal outbuildings with beautiful niches, from the roofs of which four large minarets rise ... And on the four sides of the second tier there are also four small minarets that are not adjacent to them and are not covered by large minarets. Their height is up to half the dome, and the large minarets are higher than the dome by the height of the small minarets. On the tips of the spiers of the dome and minarets there are silver "bows" or "months" with their ends up, as on battle banners *. Therefore, the mosque, originally called "Al-Mohammed", began to be popularly called "Mohammed-Alam". Since 1524, when seid Yadkar transformed the madrasah of the mosque into a house of sciences, it was also called "Kul-Ashraf". And the house of sciences in the brotherhood was also called "Mektebi Girfan" ... And it is similar to the Emir's palace of Boltar - "Kazy Yorty", but exceeds it in size and is decorated incomparably more exquisitely. Its eight minarets remind of the eight provinces of the Bulgar state, the dome - of the power of the seid, the months - of the omnipotence of the Almighty ... If you stand on the square facing this mosque, then on the left there will be a beautiful two-story hotel with a gallery for shakirds of the house of sciences "Mohammed-Alamiya", on the right - Seidov's Yard, surrounded, like the Khan's, with a beautiful stone fence.
And in the Seidov Dvor there are, among other things, the Gabdel-Mumin and Polly mosques. And "Gulli" was built later - so that its wall became part of the fence, and one of the two minarets of the Gabdel-Mumina mosque - its minaret ... Syuyumbika-Khatyn ordered to build her own minaret for her outside the fence, but this is not yet the case. ended in the same way as with the construction of the Khan's mosque near the Elbegen tower ...
* On the margins of the manuscript there is a drawing of the Kul-Ashraf mosque made by Peter Karashev and a note about it: “The height of the large minarets is up to half of the main dome, and they are higher than the small domes by the height of the small minarets.”
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And behind the mosque "Mohammed-Alam", in front of the Tazik moat, there is a small mosque "Dan" or "Chirmysh-Dan". Its minaret is the Old Chirmysh three-story tower of Yugary Kerman. And near the Upper Isbel tower there is a mosque of a small cemetery with the tomb of St. Isbel ...
And in the Tyumen uram, between the Tazik and Ulug ditches, at first there was the city magistrate "Tyumen", named so even under Gabdel-Mumin - according to the number of township yards. Then, at the request of Mohammed-Amin, the seid allowed to transfer "Tyumen Yorty" to a new place - in Sainov uram, between the ditches Ulug and Sain, and in the old "Tyumen" they placed parts of the board of Kazan Il - Sain Yorty. In addition, the Tashbash mosque and the old city cemetery are located here.
In Sainov Uram, in addition to "Tyumen", there is the Chirmysh Court, which used to be in Yugary Kerman near the old Chirmysh tower. "Chirmysh Yorty" is in charge of protecting the city and the Seidov Kaves, who live with their families in the Kaves balik near the Kaves towers and in Echke-Kazan. Here are the mosques "Sain" and "Chirmysh" ...
Behind the Sainov moat there is a Bukhara uram with "Bukhar Yorty", in which, among other things, there is a large Bukhara mosque, the management of trade affairs of the entire state "Tazik Yorty", two caravanserais: one for Rum and Crimean merchants, and the other for everyone other Muslim merchants. This yard also has a fence. Outside it are several courts of noble Bulgars); beks and owners. In addition to "Bukhara" there are mosques "Kalgan", "Tegin", "Ismaildan", "Ulan".
Under Bogyltau, on the opposite side from Bulak, there are the inner baliks of the city…
In the balik "Kaves", among other things, there are the mosques "Kaves", "Arslan-Gali", "Iskander" and "Tup".
Around the lakes Akbi-kul, Karga-kul and Bagcha-kul is the Akbikul balik. Here, on the Karga-kul lake, there are two stone baths - "Aidar-muncha" and "Altyn-muncha". And the lakes are connected by channels with pre-wall ditches and with Kaban-kul - on the one hand, and with Kazan-su - on the other. Among the mosques stand out "Kul", "Kyzyl", "Altyn", "Kuk", "Bagcha", "Sary", built on the donations of Bachman, "Aydar", built, like "Aydar-muncha", at the expense of bek Aydar …
And the Kara-Muslim balik, otherwise called Russian, adjoins the Left Arskaya Tower, because Kara-Muslims live here - Russians who converted to Islam, and their descendants ... And they were first settled behind the wall, on the banks of the Kazan-su, but after they repelled Dzhurga's attempt to land in that place, Gabdel-Mumin allowed them to populate this balik. And they began to call the former place the "Old City" ...
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There are many good blacksmiths, gunsmiths, potters, shipbuilders among the Kara-Muslims, and they are very good-natured and strong, and in character they are similar to natural Bulgars. They are clean, unlike the infidels, and very neat. In their balik there are the mosques "Kan-Bulyak", "Kaen", "Ak-Kaen", "Kuduk", "Khyzir-Ilyas". They have their own department for the affairs of all Bulgars of Urussian origin - "Kara-Muslim Yorty", which also deals with the ransom of Urussian captives. And one of the captives who wants to join the Kara-Muslim community is redeemed and converts to Islam. In total, Kazan Kara-Muslims now number three thousand, and all Bulgar-Kara-Muslims - 30 thousand ...
The Arsky balik adjoins the Arsky Gate, where the majority are the descendants of the settlers from the Bolgar. And here, among other things, the mosques "Timer" *, "Bakyr", "Baryndzhar", "Suvar", "Kuba", "Khorezm" - as in Bolgar ...
At Kaban-kul there is a balik Kasim, consisting of five ura-ms: "Kasim", "Gurji", "Dzhuketau", "Amet" and "Sultan". And in "Kasim" - the mosque "Kasim", in "Dzhuketau" - the mosques "Boar" and "Imen", and in "Amet" - the mosque "Boyan", in "Sultan" - the mosque "Sultan". In total, there are 82 mosques in the city.
In "Gurji" - the church "Dzhurgi". The descendants of the Bulgarian Gurdjians live here, and they call their church the same as there - in honor of Lachyn Khisami. Further than all the settlements from the wall, “there is a balik of Bish-Balta. Between it and the inner city, of which it is a hundred years older, is Goat Meadow, and next to it is a large Berry Forest. Only our ships are suitable for it. Foreigners are parked near the island of Tazik, and the goods from them are transported to the Kazan coast by boats for the corresponding fee of the Bishbal-Tins. They also transport goods from Bish-Balta to the fortress in boats and wagons.
Between the pier and the balik is a small grove that hides it. Exhausted by the raids of the infidels, the people of Bish-Balta allowed a small wooden church with five cupolas to be erected right behind the fence of the settlement. A Russian Christian cemetery was arranged nearby. True, calling the church was allowed only in the event of an attack by enemies. Since then, the Russians did not touch the balik during their raids. The Bish-Balta people have been asked more than once how they got to this point. To this, the Bish-Balta people, famous for their sharp tongue, answered: “It’s better to let it ring than burn.” They entered their balik from the opposite side of the church, so that there would be no sin.
* In the margins - P. Karashev's entry: "Timer Kapka".
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Shimbay served as a priest under me, before him - his father Dzhabrail, before him - his grandfather Barys, who surrendered along with Aidar. And Barys was a true bell-ringer, like his descendants, who learned this during the attacks of the Uruses. They called in such a way that sometimes the infidels stopped in amazement at the balik and their attack lost its surprise. This ringing of alarm was perfectly distinguished by the chirmyshs on guard, and the soldiers had time to get ready to repel the attacks of the enemy ...
There used to be one mosque in the balik - "Points". But after the five-domed church was built, Kama-Yakub, who was jealous of the balikbashi, erected a large five-minaret Yusuf mosque. The Bish-Baltas called her, however, in their own way - "Bish-Barmayu" ...
In that year, Ulubiy Ismail broke into the borders of the State and knocked out his brother Yusuf from Kargaly, where he was allowed to fly. Atna with two thousand horsemen immediately went to the scene and knocked Ismail out, becoming known under the nickname Kargaly. At the same time, for the sake of Syuyumbiki, the Bek spared the Nogais and allowed them to leave for Dzhaik, although he could have killed them all. Syuyumbika, having learned about this, gave him ... a tafsir of the Koran, and his wife - her jewelry ... And Ak ~ Balyk, happy with the forgiveness of the menla, he built for her a wonderful ship ... with a glass house in the middle, from which she could look into all four side...
On the ships of the Salchibashi, we returned to Kazan, where Syuyumbika was in for a difficult reign of the Il. Despite the fact that Yadkar appointed Kuchak as a sardar of the Kazan Alai, 5 thousand Crimean and Azak yuldash did not return to the service of the Kan and went to Alat. Thanks to this, the forces of the “Betle Tatars” increased to 15 thousand, and they became even stronger in the hope of seizing the Kazan silt with the help of the Uruses and after that obtaining Balsh citizenship and estates. These unfaithful Kipchaks, led by the stupid but very ambitious Mamet, captured the north of Mountainous Bulgaria and offered Islam an alliance against Galikai. The Igenchei rebels only burdened the Simbirsk Ulugbek, without bringing him any income, so Islam willingly entered into an agreement with the Tatar rebels and, together with them, ousted Galikai from Mountainous Bulgaria. Mamysh-Birde helped the rebels to cross to the left bank of the Kara-Idel, suggesting to use them for their own purposes in the future ... "Betle Tatars" was horrified, but Mamet, on the advice of Kamay-mur-za, issued a firman about the destruction of the Kazanchi estates in Arsky silt and about handing them over to the Igenchis, and Galikai rushed to Echke-Kazan past Alat. The rebels again occupied Archa and for a long time fettered the Arsk Kazanchis ...
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Having gained dominance in the Kazan silt, the Alatians occupied the estates of Yapanchi, Bibarys and other Kazanchis hostile to them and, finally, laid siege to Kazan. The forces of Mamet were led by the son of Shekhid-Ulan Kildibek, who already imagined himself the first Russian boyar ... When the vile crowd of "Betle Tatars" appeared in sight of the city, "Tyumen Yorty" staggered and showed a desire to surrender the city to the rebels. A thousand Kazan archers and three thousand Crimean yuldash sent to meet the Alat thieves were defeated due to the betrayal of their commander Ak-Mohammed and two sons of Kuchak ...
All archers were killed either in battle or in captivity, and the yuldashi went over to the side of the “Betle Tatars”. We were left with only a thousand Cheremshans of Bek Mohammed, a thousand yuldashes of Ulan Kuchak and three thousand Kaves. Confused Syuyunbika came to the gates of the Seyid Dvor and fell prostrate before them ... I went out, raised her and gave her my petition for granting the will and land of the Kazan Kazanchis and Murzas to the Igenchis and for equalizing the rights of the Tazikbash and small owners. The revived bika immediately ordered to issue her decree on behalf of her son, beginning with the words: “This is the word of the Kazan Ulugbek Khan Utyamysh-Garay to his faithful Kazan igenchis and small owners. We have heard news of the oppression that tormented you with uhlans and murzas. And seid Bu-Yurgan submitted to us his petition for the release of you from oppression in accordance with the laws of the holy seid Mohammed-Gali. And I decided - at the request of the seid and with the permission of the menla of Kul-Ashraf - welcome you, my faithful ones: small owners - equal rights with big owners, igenchis - freedom and lands of your oppressors and inclusion in the ranks according to your choice. Come to us - and you will receive written decrees from us about this ... "
As I calculated, the petty masters loyal to us quickly overthrew the Tazikbash of the old Magistrate and headed the new Tyumen, and Galikai immediately declared himself our ally and went to Kazan, overgrowing along the way with crowds of rebellious Igenches - Kara-Chir-Mice and Kazanchiev Kurmysh. He managed to occupy the fortress of Biektau, and the "Bethle Tatars" were forced to move away from Kazan. Fearing a blow from the Arsk Kazanchis, who had freed themselves from the presence of a significant part of the rebels, the Alat people called in Russian troops to help. They appeared in the winter, dragging huge cannons behind them. They were made for the Balyns by the Alman masters on the model of the big cannons of Biktimer and his sons. These guns could fire cannonballs to the knee and waist of an adult, and the Moscow uluby Iban, nicknamed Alasha, hoped to use them to break the Kazan township wall ... 130 thousand Russians moved towards Kazan along the Kara-Idel ice and the Dzhunskaya road, encouraged by the promises of the Alat thieves to take the city “at a timid woman” from the very first shot, like a miserable village ... Mamysh-Birde, faithful to the menle, made the Balyns waver a little in their confidence. His 4,000 Arsk chirmyshs, with wild cries, attacked the main Russian convoy carrying the largest cannons across the ice. 12,000 infidels were put on the spot within two hours of fighting. The rest, seeing their plight, broke through the ice and drowned their cannons in the river ...
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However, the Alatians assured the embarrassed Ulubiy that the Kazanians did not have large forces, and the Russians nevertheless approached Kazan and began a heavy shelling of the city. During it, my dear friends, the son of Safa Gazi-Garay and the Crimean ambassador Arslan Chelebi, died at the Big Taras Bulak Wall ... Urus bek Bashtu Dani-la ... She was redeemed from captivity in Bagcha-Bolgar by our ambassadors, among whom was her cousin ... Safa, who was then in the Crimea, helped this ... Gazi had no interest in state affairs, but he willingly learned versification from me , and Iskander - drawing and helped me in the description of Kazan. Under the influence of my stories, he wanted to go as an ambassador to Persia - but only to improve his versification ... Safa suspected his smart son of intending to seize the post of Ulugbek and, trying to scare him, executed his beloved teacher Baibek ... Every day everything is in me the words of young Gazi, which he dedicated to the memory of the kind old man, philosopher and lover of versification, Baibek, sound stronger:
Is it possible to love this world, knowing
Why would you leave him at your own time?
Better treat this life like a dream
After which, by the will of the Almighty,
You will awaken to true joy...
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After the shelling, which, it seemed, could wake up the dead, the Russians - with their usual obsession - climbed onto the walls. The captive Balyns later told that the Alman yuldashi of Alasha closed their eyes so as not to see the terrible picture of the bloody Balyn attack. Our 5,000 soldiers had a very difficult time, and when the Crimean yuldashi suddenly faltered and left part of the Arsk wall to the enemy, a terrible panic began. Syuyunbika ran to me with a terrible cry for help, defying all customs. Then I went out to her in military armor and with the words that we are defending not ourselves in the city, but our Islamic faith, the power of men-ly and her son, brought to life. Then I made her put on Alparian (knightly) armor, pick up a saber and a Kazan banner, and took her with me to the place of the enemy breakthrough. There were already Russians on the wall, but the Kaves and militias, seeing us, took courage and knocked the infidels off it. We stood on it, and were motionless even when the Uruses again climbed onto the wall and almost grabbed us with their hands. Now, however, there was no confusion among the people. Many wives and daughters of petty owners and Kavesians dressed, following the example of Biki, in armor, and, together with their fathers, brothers and husbands, rushed into the fray. At that moment, the Cheremshans of Atna approached with the rebels who had joined them and with a blow from the Ar forest forced the enemy to stop the attack. One and a half thousand archers and militias, 300 Cheremshans, 500 Crimeans and 2 thousand ordinary people fell in our country. The infidels have 30 thousand soldiers. At the Arskaya tower, the corpses of the Balyns lay almost flush with the wall throughout the entire space from the wall to the tavern of the merchant Shahidulla, who was in front of the bridge behind the moat ... But the most unpleasant thing for Alashi was that 5 thousand Mo-Dzhar Bulgars from the Shah-Gali detachment joined Atna, doubling his forces, and those, having lost another 15 thousand infantrymen, began to hastily retreat. At the same time, Atna did not lag behind them a single step and forced them to abandon or drown all the weapons. The carts also went to the tireless Yarchally people, as a result of which 23 thousand Russians, weakened from hunger, wounds and illnesses, were abandoned by their own along the way and froze ...
And this victory was on Nauruz, or kargatuy, as the common people call it, and children and adults, seeing the departure of the Russians, enthusiastically ran up the wall and shouted and waved their arms in imitation of the rooks ...
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On this holiday, bonfires were kindled on the Maidans and barley porridge and meat were cooked in cauldrons on them. In the evening, the young people entered into agreements, and the guy - as a sign of his consent - ate meat, and the girl - porridge. In the morning, the girl, if she did not change her mind, also ate meat ... They also prepared beer, and honey, and young people, when meeting with relatives and friends and going around their houses, sang songs with wishes of happiness in the new year. At the same time, the hosts had to give gifts to children and young people, because all kinds of disasters awaited those who were greedy that day in the future ... And the same thing happened on the Nardugan holiday, which ended with people crowding out to the place of the Old City and building here from snow and ice wall. On the Maidan, surrounded by this wall and called the "City", they put an elected "king" with a doll of the "king" and his "dzhur" and took the "fortress" by storm. At the same time, they fought provocatively - but only with fists and without malice, so that there were only bruises ... The conquerors of the "City" got through the ranks of "djurs" to the "king", snatched the doll from his hands and solemnly hung it on a high tree or a pillar with shouts: "Your term is over!" […] Then everyone elected a new “king” and told him: “Our kingdom is free, and we choose the king of our own free will, and we are free to serve him or not, but we are not used to living in captivity. And your kingdom is rich and profitable, and your income is large - so do not offend orphans and widows, do not take away the last from the poor, be a kind, just and honest ruler - otherwise we will tear you apart like your throne carpet! With these words, those present tore the carpet into small pieces and took it with them for good luck ...
They say that earlier something similar was arranged in jien, but the mentors managed to get the faithful to transfer this game to the second part of the nardugan, not associated with universal prayer ...
So this war ended on Nauruz, which people therefore began to call "Nauruz" ...
After the departure of the Russians, the "Betle Tatars" fled again to Alat, and our troops, weakened by losses, could not then pursue them. Only Galikai rushed to follow, beat from 5 thousand Kazanchis, Yuldash and Murz, and victoriously crossed the Kara-Idel to the Mountain side. Encouraged by this, the Serbian Kurmysh and the Ar Kara-Chirmysh, not to mention our pagans, joined him, and the war engulfed the entire Mountainous Bulgaria from Saratau to Tau-Kerman ...
In 1551, driven to despair, Ismail wrote to the menle that if his troops did not suppress the uprising, he would be forced to seek protection in Alat. Yadkar's position was difficult. On the one hand, he sympathized with Galikai, wished the Igenchis victory over their tormentors and the establishment of good Cheremshan order in the three western silts of Bulgar. On the other hand, he did not want to push the Kazanchis away from him, because without their support Kazan would have become the prey of the Russians. This was shown by the spring events, when the Simbirians joined the Alats and allowed the infidels to burn down part of the outer baliks of Kazan and build their fortress on Kara-Idel, in the place of our Churtan balik. This "Pike" with a 20,000-strong army of infidels began to threaten us, "minnows", squeezed, in addition, by the siege of the Alat thieves and the renewed war with Ismail's new Nogais. The Russians managed to break off the Serbian rebels from Galikai by promising them freedom. In support of this, Alasha wrote a corresponding letter, in which he called the Serbs the Subash people - "Chuvash" in Russian, and the governors of the fortress gave them a certain amount of Balyn money. Delighted, the Serbs with all the people retreated from Galikai, and the one who found himself between Churtan, the Chuvashs and the Kazanchis of Simbir had to go to the left bank of the Kara-Idel and again dig in Novaya Archa.
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To all the troubles that fell on our heads, the death of the fleet was added. The ever-wavering Ak-Balyk succumbed to the flattery of the Alat thieves out of fear of becoming a victim of the Ashrafid civil strife and agreed not to interfere with the Russians, provided they did not attack his Salchis. However, the Russian fleet, approaching the Tazik Island and Bish-Balta, first of all treacherously captured and sank the Bulgar ships that were not ready for battle. At the same time, Ak-Balyk himself survived, but was captured by several surviving salchis and drowned by them ... Thanks to this treacherous defeat, the Russian fleet began to dominate the rivers of the State and suppress all our attempts to create any significant flotilla ...
It was impossible to delay any longer and it made no sense, so Yadkar ordered Syuyunbike to leave Kazan with his son and introduced direct Kan rule in the Kazan silt. He appointed Kuchak, who was devoted to him, as his menla viceroy... Syuyunbika refused to obey the Kan's order and was taken into custody by Kuchak. He went to Kazan with the 8,000th Cheremshan army of Yadkar Yapancha, but on the way he was suddenly attacked and defeated by Galikai and Bibarys, who joined him - with a thousandth detachment. In this skirmish, the elderly Bashkort Ulugbek, the son of Said-Akhmed Begish, fell off his horse and was vainly trampled. The Nogai Ulubiy Ismail immediately seized the province of Bashkort, expelling Begish's son Alzyam-Birde from this il. Yadkar's attempt to strengthen his position in Kazan was thus frustrated, and the emboldened Alats again moved towards the city. Their effort was reinforced by a Balyn detachment of 300 Russians and 700 Chuvashs. The rebels became three camps in the Goat Meadow, but Kuchak pulled out several light cannons from Shahri Gazan at night and at dawn fired them at them. The enemy rushed to run in horror, but only the cavalry Alats managed to escape. Russian and Chuvash infantrymen fled more slowly and were all trampled underfoot by Mohammed... After that, Galikay and Bibarys rushed from Biektau to Kazan, who decided to free Syuyunbiku and his son. The poor, who loved their intercession and tsubika and called it Syuyumbika, opened the gates of the inner settlements and, together with the rebels who entered the city, rushed to Shakhri Gazan. Budish did not dare to hit them with guns, and the rebels broke through to the place of detention of Syuyunbiki - the Khan's Court. I, who retired as a sign of dissatisfaction with the arrest of Biki in my father's turbe, already heard the triumphant cries of the Igenchis very close by. But Kuchak, who did not know the feeling of fear, coolly ordered Baygara to shoot from the cannons placed at the gates of the yard, and their cannonballs forced the rebels to clear the city. Alarmed by this invasion, Kuchak and Mohammed reported to Yadkar about the plight of Kazan, and Menla ordered Kuchak to take the Khan's family, me and all valuables out of the city ...
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Mamysh-Birde staged his own feigned attack on Kazan in order to hold back a new offensive of the Alat thieves, and thanks to this cover, Mohammed safely left with a wagon train of valuable things in Korym-Chally. Kuchak followed after, when the Alats, having seen through the cunning of Mamysh-Birde, broke through the ranks of his chirmysh to the Goat Meadow ... I told the uhlan that it was risky to take the khan's family out of the city in such a situation and that if he tries to do this, I will call for help Kazan people. The poor peasants were already gathering in crowds and bombarded the departing Kan detachments with reproaches, insults and threats. Kuchak didn’t want to create an obstacle for himself in vain, and, waving his hand at us, he quickly left for Mohammed ...
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