Abai Kunanbaiuly

Abai Kunanbaiuly was born on 10 August 1845 in the Chingiz mountains, in the Semipalatinsk region, the son of Kunanbai, first sultan of the Karkaraly district. Educated first at home, he studied at the madrasa of Imam Ahmad Riza, then at a Russian school. A poet and composer, he rendered poems by Pushkin, Lermontov, Goethe, Byron and Schiller into Kazakh. He died in 1904; his first collection of verse appeared five years later, in Saint Petersburg.

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