KUBAGUSH‑SESEN

KUBAGUSH‑SESEN, Bashkir poet­-improviser. The name K.­S. is mentioned in the fables such as “Kubagush-Sesen”, “Karas and Karasakal”, the ulyane of a Kazakh akyn Bisyanbay. According to fable “Kubagush­-Sesan”, K.­S. lived in the late 15th to mid-16th centuries. He initiated the accession of Bashkortostan to Russia. The aytysh with Akmurza-Sesen “Aytysh of
Akmurza-Sesen and Kubagush-Sesen”, which was included in the fable, is the only surviving work of the Sesen, in which he exposes the cruelty of Nogai khans and murzas.