Author · Kazakhstan
Akan Seri
Died in 1913
Akan Seri, whose real name was Akzhigit, was born in 1843 in Koskol, today the village of Akan-Seri in North Kazakhstan, the son of a well-off father of the Karaul clan of the Argyn. A pupil at a madrasa in present-day Petropavl, which he soon left, a singer and composer, he earned the title of seri, the elegant horseman, travelling from aul to aul with his stallion Kulager, his golden eagle and his greyhound. The death of Kulager, killed during a race on the orders of a jealous bai, inspired his bitterest song. He died in 1913, after a long illness.