Taymas Shaimov

For the first time in official documents mentioned in 1706.

P. I. Rychkov mentioned that T. Shaimov led a five-thousand army of Bashkirs during one of their campaigns on the Kirghiz-Kaisakov , and in some Kazakh publications it is said that earlier, in 1721-1723, Taymas Shaimov led a thousands-strong detachment Bashkir, who helped the Kazakhs in their struggle with the Dzungars ^[1] .

In 1730, Taymas Shaimov was received at the court of Anna Ioannovna . He brought foxes and martens as a gift to her. For veneration, the empress rewarded the Bashkir foreman with lands currently located near the city of Chelyabinsk ^[2] .

On February 9, 1731, the empress signed a letter to Khan Abulkhair on the acceptance of the Younger Zhuz into Russian citizenship. Pyotr Ivanovich Rychkov wrote about this:

“According to his Khan’s petition in 1731, in May, the translator of the Murza Aleksey Tevkelev was sent to him, the khan, of the collegium of foreign affairs. The embassy, ​​headed by A. I. Tevkelev, after a three-month stay on the road on July 4, 1731, arrived in Ufa. Here he was given to him from surveyors Alexey Pisarev and Mikhail Zinoviev, to describe the places, and several people from Ufa noblemen and Cossacks, and from Bashkirs the best people - the aforementioned Aldar da Taymas-batyr and some more with such instructions that the aforementioned khan with all the horde in citizenship I shall completely affirm and swear allegiance to oblige, to receive thorough news about the state of this and the local places. ”

- Rychkov P.I. History of Orenburg. - Ufa, 2001 .-- S. 7

But during the embassy it turned out that most of the Kazakh feudal lords were against joining Russia. One of the reasons was the frequent attacks of the Bashkirs on the Middle Zhuz . It is known that on November 17, 1732, the Bashkir detachment, consisting of 1000 people, attacked the uluses of the Middle Zhuz, "took captured 100 and 2000 horses, de 40 people were killed to death" ^[3] . After that, on November 21, 1732, a large crowd of Kazakhs gathered at the head of the Tyangori-Birdium and asked Abulkhair “they demanded to take Tevkelev and who are the Bashkirs with him, to the Middle Zhuz and keep them there until the Bashkirs returned them, the Kirghiz-Kaisatsky , horsemans ” ^[4] . On November 22, Abulhair introduced Taymas to a meeting of elders, at which he was presented with a bill of losses. Taymas Shaimov reminded them that the Kazakhs themselves repeatedly attacked the Bashkirs and the Russians. At the meeting, he mentioned the Kazakh attack on the Russian trade caravan led by Colonel Garber, the capture of Cossack wives and 16 children of the Yayitsky town , the killing of 40 Bashkirs, theft of 6,000 horses, and the Kazakhs selling Bashkir children in slavery in Khiva ^{[ 5]} . Largely thanks to the help of T. Shaimov and several other Bashkirs, the embassy ended successfully and the Kazakhs of the Younger Zhuz headed by Khan Abulkhair, part of the nobility of the Middle Zhuz, as well as the Karakalpaks accepted Russian citizenship.

For the assistance provided by the tsarist administration when the Kazakhs of Small Zhuz joined the Russian Empire, Taimas Shaimov was granted Tarhani. Here is what P. I. Rychkov wrote about this:

“The Bashkir foremen made considerable efforts to calm down their willful people, and especially the Taymas Batyr, being with the Kirghis Kaisak a glorious Bashkir horseman, or hero, who, as it appears above, was granted Tarkhan in 1734”

- Rychkov P.I. History of Orenburg. - Ufa, 2001 .-- S. 8

Taymas Shaimov also took part in the suppression of the Bashkir uprising in 1735–40 and in negotiations between the tsarist authorities and the leaders of the rebels.

With the permission of Tarkhan Shaimov, fortresses were built on the lands of the Bashkirs:

• Verkhoyitskaya ;
• Miass
• Chelyabinsk ;
• Chebarkul fortress ;
• Etkul ;
• Uklykaragayskaya ^[6] .

At the request of Taimas Shaimov in 1740, the Senate issued a decree on the demarcation of Bashkir lands and territories allotted to the fortresses, so that "the inhabitants of the built fortresses would not invade Bashkir land, and surrounded their crops with fortification" ^[1] .

The last mention of the Taymas Batyr dates back to the mid 50s of the 18th century.

• Article in Bashkortostan: Brief Encyclopedia (inaccessible link)
• Aldar Isekeyev and Taimas Shaimov at the embassy of A. I. Tevkelev in Kazakhstan in 1731-1733.

• Bashkir Encyclopedia

[Category: Bashkir Tarkhans]]