User:Aziza2001/Estay - Korlan

We know the love stories of Marc Anthony and Cleopatra, Napoleon and Josephine, Pierre Curie and Maria Warehouse. However, we often forget that our Kazakh steppe also keeps many touching stories.

Estai Berkimbaev - Kazakh akyn and composer, originally from Pavlodar region. Even as a child, he became interested in music, and to his youth, fame about him swept through the steppe. Once the akyn was asked to accompany the son of one of the bais to the village of Maraldy, where the bride of the latter lived. History has it that it was in 1894. During the festivities, Estai, then a 20-year-old boy, met Kusni and Korlygayin, who was affectionately called Korlan. They were daughters of a rich biy from the Kipchak clan and were famous for their beauty. The eldest, Korlan, really liked the folk singer, and his feelings were mutual.

Despite the fact that their villages separated 400 kilometers, the young found an opportunity to meet in secret. This helped them Kusni. Secretly, because the girl was captured as the youngest wife of a rich man. With the consent of her beloved, Estai was going to steal her. However, upon learning of his plan, the girl's infuriated father quickly married her. Korlan could not go against the will of his father and obeyed fate. Subsequently, she became the mother of four children, but continued to love the akyn until her death in the 30s of the last century.

Estay also carried love for this woman through his life. The only memory of his beloved was the ring she had presented, which he never parted with.

The wife of the akyn, whom he greatly respected, often suffered because of the spouse's first love. A contemporary of Yestay named Zhumakhan told his pupil, singer Karim Baimuratov, that once during a visit to the folk performer, Yestay's wife addressed him: "I am so tired, he mourns her from morning to evening, take him to Korlan!" But Estay could not help it - youthful love was so strong. He dedicated many songs to Korlan, the most famous of which is Kusni Korlan.

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Already a 67-year-old old man, Yestay, performed Korlan with excitement. He took the dombra, he was silent for a long time, looked thoughtfully into the distance, sighed, wiped the tears that had run over, and only then began to play. deaf. From his song he breathed deep antiquity, the legend of true, tested love. On the ring finger of the singer's right hand a large golden ring gleamed. When he finished the song, he looked at this ring as a sacred talisman and said: "Yes, relatives mine, here is the ring - witness those happy days. This is the memory of the incomparable Korlan. "Then he again thought and was silent for a long time ..." - wrote Ahmet Zhubanov.

Song of love Estaya and Korlan still lives. There are a lot of variants of its execution now. I would like to mark the performance of Batyrkhan Shukenov, the iFLY group and Dimash Kudaibergen.