Gazi Baba. Biography of Ghazi Baraj. 1262

AND here is an excerpt from the "Biography of Gazi-Baradj" by Gazi-Baba himself:
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“In 1241, my emir Gazi-Baradj participated in the campaign against Alman and reached Avaria or Modjar. The local Ulchians and Almanians ambushed and killed the Tatars who were walking with the emir at night. Ours stood in a separate camp and did not suffer at the same time, but when they moved on, they found a chase. Then the emir already ambushed the city of Burash and killed at least 10 thousand pursuers. With the heads of the enemies on spears, ours drove up to the city and forced it to surrender. There the emir stocked up with everything necessary and, having passed to Modzhar, joined with other Tatars. Having learned about the death of their own, these Tatars wanted to take revenge by defeating Modjar, but the emir refused this under the pretext of kinship between the Modjars and the Bulgars, and thus forced them to turn back to Kypchak. And the great Kan Tatars transferred this area as a tarkhanate to his relative, Khan Batu... Beks are Anchians. Collect and combine them with the Kaubuians into one army - and it will faithfully serve you. Batu did just that and ordered the army to be called Tatar, because the Tatars called all the [netatars] who served them “Tatars” ... But the Kaubuians refused, and then the emir suggested that the khan call the soldiers of this army Cossacks. “The word Cossack among the Bulgars means a valiant bakhadir who fights without chain mail as a sign of disregard for death. Such bakhadirs vow not to marry until they glorify themselves with military exploits. Let these warriors be like the Cossacks,” added Ghazi-Baradj. Batu liked this proposal, and he approved it. And even earlier, the emir created the Cossack army in Bulgar, and it replaced the kursybay ...

In 1242, Gazi-Baradj raised his son Khisam to the throne in Nur-Suvar and went from Bulgar to Kypchak, for he accepted the offer of the great Kan to become his bashkak in Kypchak with the aim of joining Kypchak to Bulgar. He built the city of Saray for Batu and populated it with Bulgars. In addition, he tried to put the Bulgars in power everywhere in Kypchak. His enemy in Kypchak was Batu's brother Berkay, who relied on the Khorezmians and Kypchaks... Most of all, Berkay was annoyed by the fact that Bulgar collected tribute from Balyn, Djir, Dzhuketun, Kan, Jun-Kala and Balukta...

The Great Khan asked Gazi-Baradj to hire our masters and Salchis to serve him in order to conquer Machin, Imen Island and other countries. This was caused by the story of the Chins that a thousand years ago a thousand people of two clans came to Chin from Bulyar - May and Ishtyak - and that these Bulgars became famous as excellent seafarers. Once they were sent to conquer the Far Machinsky Island and did not return. Only one Bulyarian arrived from there through the Middle Machin Island and reported that the inhabitants of that country pretended to submit to the Bulyars, but at night they sank all their ships ... He hired the required people and sent them with a huge caravan to the great khan ...

In 1246, when Gazi-Baradj died in Sarai, his stableman Yaldau raised Boyan and Tukhchi-Ismail to a new uprising against Khisam and the Tatars. The rebels captured Bolgar and Nur~Suvar and captured Khisam. Emir became Yaldau. But this time, the subashes and the Cossacks of Burat, embittered by the last betrayal of the ulans, did not support the beks. The Great Kan sent Uran-Kytai to help Khisama, and he, together with Burat and Kalmak, besieged Nur-Suvar ...
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After Yaldau was killed on the wall with an arrow, the Nursuvars opened the gates to Burat. Burat brought the entire population out, after which the Tatars razed the city to the ground. When Kalmak's brother Burildai was trampling Gali's grave near the emir's palace with the hooves of his horse, an old man from among the El-Khum brothers approached him and said: “What are you doing? After all, this is the tomb of a saint! You call death on your own head!"

But Burilday cut his brother's head with a sword and continued sacrilege...

And Kalmak took the nickname Burundai for himself, since he saved the population of Nur-Suvar from death together with Burat and wanted to remember this ...

Boyan and Tukhchi, who fled from Nur-Suvar, locked themselves in Bolgar, but under pressure from the timid Suvarchis, they also had to release Khisam and flee under cover of night. They say that Burat secretly let them through his orders in order to save the city. The liberated Khisam begged Uran-Kytai, in memory of the friendship of their fathers, even those who died in the same year, to spare the Bolgars for their residence, and the son of Subyatai took the Tatars away. So Bolgar again became the capital of the Bulgar State...

Galimbek then expelled Boyan from Kazan, and he founded in 1247 Ar-Kala or Archa-Balik upstream Arsu. Then, in 1248, he founded a new Ar-Kala, which they began to call simply Archey ... ".

Ghazi Baba also retained the following important judgment of Seyid Gali on this issue:

"... The power of our state - starting from the time of Idel in Ur or Old Turan - waned at times because the people themselves ceased to be interested in strengthening it and supported their kings only during periods of enemy invasions ... " […]