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Söyembikä of Kazan

Tatar ruler

Summary

Tatar ruler

Field	Value
title	Xanbikä of Kazan
image	Image:Soyembika.jpg
caption	Söyembikä with son Ütämeşgäräy
birth_date
death_date	after 1553
death_place	Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
spouse	Cangali khan (1533–35)
Safagäräy (1536–49)
Şahğäli (after 1553)
issue	Ütämeşgäräy

Safagäräy (1536–49) Şahğäli (after 1553)

''Captured Princess Söyembikä leaves Kazan'', by [[Vasily Khudyakov]].

Söyembikä (also spelled Söyenbikä, Sujumbike, pronounced ; Cyrillic: Сөембикә) (1516 – after 1553) was a Nogai ruler, xanbikä. She served as regent of Kazan during the minority of her son from 1549 until 1551.

Life

She was the daughter of Nogay nobleman Yosıf bäk and the wife of Canğäli (1533–35), Safagäräy (1536–49) and Şahğäli (after 1553). In 1549, she became regent during the minority of her son, Kazan khan Ütämeşgäräy.

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 and later married to Şahğäli, the Russia-imposed khan of the Qasim and Kazan Tatars.

Suicide legend

She is a national hero of Tatarstan. Her name is associated first of all with Söyembikä Tower, that Ivan the Terrible wanted to marry her, so she agreed that if he built her a tower made with seven tiers (one for each day of the week) then she would marry him. Ivan the Terrible supposedly finished the tower within the week, so Söyembikä went up to the top of the tower and after looking out at her beautiful home of Kazan she became so overwhelmed with emotion for her people that she couldn't bear to marry the tsar and jumped off. However, the true date of her death, and her gravesite, remains unknown.

References

{{TES. Сөембикә
(2008). "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History". Oxford University Press.

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