Saken biography

Time Travel Seyfullin Saken - GG. Saken Sadvokas Seifullin is a writer and statesman, an outstanding son of the Kazakh people. Born on October 15 in the Zhanarkinsky district of the Zhezkazgan region in the family of a peasant-a-warehouse. His parents were not rich people. But it was a family in which they loved music, poems, understood the beautiful.

Saken's father possessed a musical hearing, was an excellent booty and a man of cheerful temper. Mother Zhamal was a magnificent expert on oral folk art, knew how to skillfully tell fairy tales and legends. In the aul where the Saken family lived, poetic competitions often took place - Aytys. This atmosphere, filled with the romance of the steppe nature and the spirit of folk poetry, contributed to the awakening of bright poetic talent in the children's soul.

A brave, passionate about legends about legendary batyrs, the boy loved steppe races, hunting, shepherd bonfires, tall stars. Saken learned Arabic literacy in the village of Mullah. But the father understands that his son needs to study, and in the year he gives him first to the Nilda Russian-Kazakh school, then to the parish and later to the three-year city school. During the years of study, Saken meets Russian literature, is found in Akmolinsk with the famous Akyns Gaziz and Iman-Zhusup, reads a lot, memorizes the poems of Abay.

An inquisitive young man dreams of devoting himself to the enlightenment of his people and decides to become a teacher. In the year, S. Seifullin, having graduated from the Akmola school, enters the Omsk Teacher Seminary. His first poetic experiments belong to this time. Within the walls of the seminary, Saken has established himself as a poet and as an active participant in the Birlik youth organization “Unity”, which aimed at spreading culture and knowledge among the Kazakh population.

At the meetings of the literary circle, he performs his poems and songs, listens to the poems of M. Zhumabaev and H. The very young Saken Seyfullin shows a bright poetic talent, and the organization’s comrades help him publish the first collection of poems “Conder” “past days”. The collection included about twenty poems about love, homeland, and steppe nature. They express the dreams and aspirations of the gifted poet.

Saken Seyfullin shows greater social activity. In the year in Omsk, he is drawn into revolutionary activities. After the end of the seminary in the year, S. Seifullin works as a teacher in Akmola district. Of great importance in the formation of the worldview of Saken Seyfullin was the national liberation movement of the year. A dream, although he did not directly participate in an armed uprising, but sympathized with the struggle of the people against the oppressors.

With pain in the heart, the poet speaks of social vices - of poverty and ignorance, about injustice and violence. After the February Revolution, the young poet is in the thick of events. In the spring of the year, Saken Seifullin is elected chairman of the Akmola Kazakh Committee. With its active participation, the Youth organization Zhas Kazakh "Young Kazakh" is created and its printed body of the Tirschilik newspaper.

On the pages of this newspaper, Saken criticizes the Alashordians from the perspective of the Bolshevik party. In December, he was elected a member of the Presidium of the Akmola Council and the county commission on education. In the summer of the year, S. Seifullin was arrested. Together with the group of the Councils of Councils, the poet was driven from Akmolinsk to Petropavlovsk in shackles, and from there to Omsk.

There he was thrown into the "death car" of Ataman Annenkov. Many comrades Seyifullina were shot, died from torture and hunger. Only the flight manages Saken to escape from the faithful death. But in prison, and in the camp, and in the “Death Wagon”, and in the deep underground, Saken Seyfullin does not interrupt his poetic activity, does not lose faith in life, justice and victory.

The indomitable spirit of optimism and the bright feelings of mutility are permeated even by those of his poems that are written in the difficult days of temporary defeat, imprisonment and exile. Poems-years: “Comrades”, “In the steppe”, “Come on, jigits”, “My winged horse” become popular among the people, sound like songs. In March, Saken, with the help of Czechoslovak soldiers, escapes the Omsk camp.

He wrote about this in detail in his novel "The thorny path." In the spring of the year, Saken Seifullin returns to Akmolinsk and is actively involved in the restoration of the Soviet regime, works as deputy chairman of the county committee, he is elected a member of the Righthouse of the Kazakh Territory. In the year, with his closest assistance and participation, an agricultural school, two technical schools of the 1st stage, 3 schools of the 2nd stage, 6 school workshops were opened, the Central County Library, the Workers' and Peasants Club, in which the sections were operated-dramatic, choral, musical, literary.

In the year, Saken Seyfullin works as an editor of the newspaper Enbekshi Kazakh, “working Kazakh”, then the editor -in -chief of the magazine “Adebit Maidan” The Literary Front. ”In these turbulent years, busy with great state work, Saken Seifullin, along with his associates, lays the foundations of Kazakh Soviet literature.In the year, a collection of his poems “Asu Tulpar”, imbued with the pathos of the transformations of that time, is published.

At the same time, he tries his strength in dramaturgy, his plays “on the way to happiness” and “red falcons”, imbued with love for the motherland, calling for the struggle for a new life appear. Saken Seyfullin has always been closely connected with the people, expressed his thoughts and feelings. He vividly responded to all the most important problems of our time.

The theme of labor, the image of a worker and a peasant are devoted to many of his poems: “Type”, “Printing house”, “Sower”, “At the weaving factory” and others. Seifullin was an innovator in literature.

Its innovation arose on a strong folk basis. The collector and lover of folklore, the artist drew from him images and comparisons, a rich verbal “texture”. This was especially manifested in poetry and drama. Seifullin creatively revised the poetic traditions of the Kazakh people, fundamentally updating the form and content, introduced new topics and images into poetry, and was an innovator in the field of verse.

An example of the particularly successful use of the wealth of Kazakh folklore lyric-epics “Separated Swans”, “Songs of Lashyn”, “Kokcheta”. In these truly poetic works, the anthem of the best human qualities and deeds, the strength and purity of love, the beauty of nature sounds. Poems are created according to the plots and motives of folk legends and legends, re -interpreted by the artist.

Immediately after the end of the Civil War, Saken Seyfullin began work on his famous book by the historical and memoir novel “The Tornie Way”, which shows the struggle of Kazakhs against tsarism. This novel to a certain extent is a textbook of history and a work of art that recreates the reality of the stormy years in Kazakhstan. This is not a set of historical facts and information, but a whole work in which historical events are intertwined with the fate of an individual.

Saken Seyfullin raised the richest material of historical events in his book. Until the last days of his life, Saken Seyfullin worked fruitfully in prose, dramaturgy, literary criticism, literary criticism. His contribution to the development of journalism is also invaluable. He paid a lot of attention to the collection of monuments of Kazakh folklore, their research and publication.

With his participation, the collections “Samples of ancient Kazakh literature”, “Batyr”, “Akhan-Sery Aktokta”, the Kazakh version of the poem “Leili and Majnun” were published. Saken Seifullin stood at the cradle of the Union of Writers of Kazakhstan and until the end of his days remained one of his leaders. Already, starting in the middle of the X, Saken conducted a large pedagogical and research work, lectures in Kazakh literature.

Saken Seifullin made a lot to translation of Kazakh authors into Russian, and, conversely, books of Russian writers into the Kazakh language. In Kazakhstan, he was a tireless propagandist of Russian literature and Russian science. The legacy of Saken Seyfullin is great. Nevertheless, he accomplished less than what he could have done. The life of a wonderful Kazakh writer broke off in February 25.

Saken Seyfullin was illegally repressed and shot. But his name and creativity were not forgotten. In the year, the honest name of Saken Seyfullin was rehabilitated.