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Söyembikä (also spelled Söyenbikä, Sujumbike;[1] [sœ?jœmbi'kæ]; Cyrillic: ????????) (1516 – after 1554) was a Tatar ruler, xanbikä.
She was the regent of her son Kazan khan Ütämesgäräy in (1549-51), the daughter of Nogay nobleman Yosif bäk and the wife of Kazan khans Cangäli (1533-35), Safagäräy (1536-49) and Sahgäli (after 1553). In 1551, after the first partial conquest of the Khanate of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible she was forcibly moved to Moscow with her son[2] and later married to Sahgäli, Russia-imposed khan of Qasim and Kazan Tatars.
She is the national hero of Tatarstan. Her name is associated first of all with Söyembikä Tower, that she is supposed to have built as a tomb for her husband Safagäräy. No information was recorded about her death, but a legend has it that she hurled herself from the tower she had built. She is the direct ancestress of Prince Felix Yussupov.
See also
References
- ^ pronounced ser-yerm-bee-KEH
- ^ (Tatar) "????????". Tatar Encyclopedia. (2002). Kazan: Tatarstan Republic Academy of Sciences Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia.
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