A. A. Asylbaev. History of the village of Chupayevo (2010)

At the suggestion of the respected Albert Salimov, I found and purchased a local history book by Adylyan Asylkaevich Asylbaev online. Circulation of only 144 copies.



As the title suggests, the book tells the story of a Mari village in the Sharansky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan.

Of course, the author is not a historian, so we will treat passages such as:

“Inhabitants of the middle Volga region - Tatars and Chuvash (descendants of the Volga Bulgars), Udmurts, Mari and Mordovians - were part of the Kazan Khanate. (...) People of these nationalities lived in friendship, mutual understanding and were very prosperous. The Russian state was jealous of the Kazan Khanate. And then the twenty-two-year-old Russian Tsar Ivan IV (the Terrible) June 16 In 1552, with an army of 150 thousand people, he set out from Moscow against the Kazan Khanate" (p. 6).

Oh how! The peoples of the Kazan Khanate lived quietly and peacefully, grew rich and enjoyed life. And here are the Russians, who could neither eat nor sleep, seeing that everything was fine with their neighbors. Tormented by envy, they attacked the peaceful citizens of Kazan...

There were no wars between the Kazan Khanate and Muscovite Russia, no devastating Khan campaigns on Russian lands, no palace coups in the Khanate itself... There were good Ukrainians from Kazan and evil Russian quilted jackets.

“After the capture of the Kazan province (!) by the Russian army in 1552, the Tatars were forced to settle along the banks of the Kama...” (p. 10-11).

“On June 26, 1742, three brothers of the Yabalakov family arrived in our region from the Yoshkar-Ola province (!): Chopay and his wife Erviy, Opai and Orspai...” (p. 11).

Why is the book valuable for lovers of Mari mythology? The author's memories of how villagers celebrated folk holidays, held weddings, and performed pagan rituals. Only a few pages are devoted to this, but still...

It is with pleasure that I put the book “The History of the Village of Chupaevo” on the shelf of my home library.

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