The reality of the era in dastan «The Death of Esaul»

Abstract

The article deals with the version of the epic legend «The Death of the Cessation» in the Sabit Mukanov tragedy and the relation of this work to the historical uprising of Kenesary. The author needed, firstly: comprehensively supplement the research topic; Secondly: to reveal the role and degree of influence of the historical legend on the political events of the epoch. Relying on the works of such researchers as Rakhmankul Berdibayev, Esmagambet Ismailov, Esmukhan Bekmakhanov, Zhumat Tlepov, and rare archival materials, the author explains through historical events. The article uses folk samples collected by Mashkhur-Zhusup Kopeyev and Omar Shipin in his manuscript entitled «The History of the Seven Batyrs.» Here you can talk about the problem of the genre of the Kazakh historical song.