Biography Alim Idamak

Give five hundred Chervonsev and God will save your soul! At a meeting of the Tauride Scientist of the Archival Commission on August 16, Andreevsky, on the pre -managed by him, from the city of Ulkovsky, for the museum of the commission of Kinzhal, who belonged, according to the legend, the famous Crimean robber Alim. Evpatoria at the inspector of the city school Stepan Vasilievich Ulkovsky, in the office of which I drew attention to the old whip hanging on the wall with his large Tatar knife invested inside.

To my question, what kind of whip, which is allocated to such an honorable place in the office, G. Ulkovsky explained that this is the whip and knife belonged to the once famous Crimean robber Alima Azamat Oglu, a native of Cooperley of Theodosia County. About how the whip and knife of the robber Alim, who terrorized the Crimean population at one time, fell into the Ulkovsky family, the latter told me the following.

The robber Alim in the city of Simferopol often had a secret stay in the "White Khan", now the house of Brenner. The owner of this "White Khan" was then Martyn Sergeyevich Sysoev, by nationality of the Armenian, a native of Turkey, a cousin of Khochers Chirakhov. Sysoev was in a very close relationship with the famous robber Alim and revered him as the patron saint of the weak and oppressed.

Knutovisch and knife Alim for a long time were stored in the Sysoev family and moved to the GG. Ulkovsky 27 years ago inherited. Ulkovsky is married to the daughter of Martyn Sergeyevich Sysoev, the former owner of the White Khan and a friend of the robber Alim. The son of Sysoev, the brother of the wife of Ulkovsky, said that the dagger, who was in this whip, the robber Alim cut his ear in the so-called "Bezuzhny Alim" Hula-Syz Alim.

He was traveling from Simferopol towards Karasubazar Tatar with a bazaar proceeds. Suddenly, the rider is catching up and, announcing that he is none other than Alim himself demands to give him the money that he has. Tatar, hearing the name of the robber Alim, unquestioningly took out the money from the kitty and gave it to the robber. But, after some time, this tatar is full of another rider, a real Alim robber, greets him and, seeing the depressed state of Tatar, asks what happened to him.

The latter explained that Alim robbed him, taking away all the bazaar revenue from him. After hearing Tatar and learning from him in which direction the robber rushed off, Alim quickly galloped in the indicated direction, warning the robbed Tatar to wait for his return in the same place where he is now. Alim managed to attack the trace of the robber, he caught up with him and selected the money.

And in order for this robber not to be mixed with a real robber Alim, the latter cut off the self -proclaimed Alim's ear with the words "Be you are a crazy robber Alim, unlike real Alim." Returning again to the road, the robber Alim gave the amount of money robbed from him, who was robbed by the Tatar, saying that he was a genuine robber Alim, and not that robber of the poor.

About this case, I personally also had to hear the story directly from the lips of one Arnaut Todor Pavlovich Pavlovich, he is also Manoilov, a summer old man who lived in the Theodosia district, first in the village of Bieli, then in Salah, after in Karasubazar, and later in the village of Avjiko Yalta district. The story of Todora Pano varies from the only one that is the genuine robber Alim, having listened to the complaint of the robbed Tatar, on the road between Simferopopol and Karasubazar, he did not chase the robber, but now he took out the sum of money equal to the robbed from his wallet, and said Alim of poor Muslims and Christians.

Go to your village and say that the robber Alim returned the money to you, and I will catch the Tatar and punish you. "The same Todor Pano told me the following:" Hearing repeatedly, that some Tatar robs on the road and in the forests, covering up with his name, Alim tracked this tatar and attacked him at that moment, when he was in his name, hiding. The robber Alim was preparing to rob one Greek on the road under the old Crimea.

The genuine Alim freed the Greek, and the robber was cut off his ear with a dagger, which he announced through the Tatar villages through his friends and mullah so that the inhabitants could not find a robber on this mark and would not mix real Alim with an impostor. Subsequently, Todor Pano said, in the village of Kiziltash of the Feodosia district, one Tatar, a certain mamut, began to appear in the mosque and everywhere for weddings with dressing.

Mullah ordered him to remove the dressing, and then it turned out that this mamut had eliminated his ear. Thus, it was discovered who was covered with the name of Alim and robbed. This mamut later fled to Turkey. The same Todor Pano and the Tatar Ansit, the summer old man who died in Avjikh, gave me that Alim had sacrificed most of the money that had done to the mosques, poor grooms-tatar on the wedding arrangement, as Muslims and the same as Christians and poor.

Thanks to the latest circumstance, Alim enjoyed the patronage of mullah and the sympathy of the village population.According to them, he did not kill anyone for all the time of his robberies, he always followed the Uraza post and regularly visited the mosque, drank only Buza, at the weddings of the Tatars occupied a honor, thanks to his generosity. Village residents always hid him from the authorities who wanted to arrest him as a deserter, and he fled from military service, as if he was punished unjustly there.

”A member of the commission cams Ablyakim Ogla indicated that G. Andreyevsky Knuutovisch with a dagger of the Caucasian work. We would not kill the word to Ludwig Kolli. Violes, robbed with weapons in his hands and using it only to scare his victim, or for his own protection. military ranks. Thanks to the inherent tatar-Gortza dexterity, excellent acquaintance with the area, as well as covering from his fellow tribesmen, quick, enormous transitions from one county to another, he often made his way through the extended chains of hunters and soldiers.

Out of fear, from participating in his unfortunate position, all Tatar villages, all mullahs patronized him, delivered shelter, and covered. How many times for his capture were arranged raids of one hundred or more people! Surrounded, like a beast in a skillfully prepared water, in the area, from which, it seemed, the mouse would not have slipped away, Alim, like an opera robber, on horseback, on the eyes of all, made his way through the thicket, descended from a steep cliff to the abyss, or quickly climbed to the top of the neighboring mountain.

In the beginning of the 10ths of the expired century, I happened to visit the estate of Shekh-Mamai, the Feodosia district near Professor Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky. We were talking about Alim. That's what, by the way, in the conversation, the venerable artist told me. We go tomorrow at dawn to arrange a raid. " On another or third day, officers returned.

We chain surrounded the whole mountain between Otuz and Kiziltash. The robber was hiding in a dense forest. Our guys saw him and began to shoot him. His horse is young, gray. He has a gray dark hat on his head. At about 8 o’clock in the morning, when our company, closing, was about to gather at a pre-planned point, a sonorous, cheerful voice was heard from the top of the next mountain: "Hurray"!

Alim, like an equestrian statue, motionless, with a horse on a gray horse, waved a hat. This whole figure stood out relief on a light background of a cloudless sky. Only he saw him! What was he? What was its appearance? Like all of our Tatars. Black from lustrate, a jacket with short sleeves, from which, covering the muscles, the wide, always clean sleeves of the shirt hung; wide, black pants surrounded by an oriental multi -colored scarf; On the bare legs are strong, open shoes, and on the head is a gray dumb hat- that was his suit.

His face was somewhat oblong, with gray smart, pretty eyes, black antennae, his shoulders are quite wide, height is medium, the camp is peppy, the physique is healthy. It was evident that the clever and strong Tatar of about thirty. His horse was dashing, like the owner himself. But now it is not known where this interesting drawing is. Probably the artist gave him to someone or took him with him.

Indeed, in the x years, we have a engraved portrait of great difficulty, and even more so a subject as Alim. The photos did not exist yet. My minister enters my workshop and reports that some Tatar wants to talk to me. I throw brushes, palette and go out onto the veranda, where the young Tatar stands. What do you need? Everyone knows you and praise you.

I have long wanted to see you. They say you write pictures. Can I see? Aivazovsky on this day finished the fourth of large paintings, species of Bosphorus. Plots interesting for a Muslim. We entered the workshop. And these small paintings on the wall are also your work? These are the types of our Crimea. These places are well known to me. Mountains, distance, greens.

Here is pike perch, Yalta, here, on Salgir, the same places! Have you been there, Ovanes-Aga? I often visit them. How good it is to relax there, to lie down in the shade! ..

Oh, our Crimea is better than all the Sultan palaces! .. Thank you, Ovanes, that you showed me all this. Now I understand why everyone, even the sovereign, are familiar with you. Goodbye, Ovanes-Aga!