Bashkir Uprising in San Francisco

We dropped everything after we saw the yurt and went running to join in the Bashkir Uprising in San Francisco until we noticed it was an "Earth-Day Chai House" and not a Bashkir Uprising after all. We tried not to express how disappointed we were.

Tatar - Turks - in Russian

This documentary looks interesting.
Too bad it's only in Russian.

A Russian Gentleman - Aksakov

Here is the latest addition to the Peremech Lounge library collection:

A Russian Gentleman
by Sergei Aksakov 1943
The Readers Club, New York

excerpt:

"At this time an event happend at Ufa which caused a great sensation there and was especially interesting to the young Bagroffs, because the hero of the story was an intimate friend of theirs, and if I am not mistaken, distantly related to Alexyei Stepanitch. Sofya Nikolayevna, as one would expect from her character, took a lively interest in such a romantic affair. A young man, named Timasheff , one of the most prominent and richest nobles of the district, fell in love with a Tartar girl, the daughter of a rich Tartar landowner. Her family, just like the Alkins, had altered their way of living to a certain extent in conformity with European customs, and they spoke Russian well, but they strictly observed the Moslem faith in all its purity. The beautiful Salme returned the love of the handsome Russian officer, who was a captain in the regiment stationed near Ufa. As she could not be married to a Russian without changing her religion, it was perfectly certain that her parents and grown-up brothers would never give their consent to such a union."

Halime - Zuhre

Halime - Chita
Zuhre - Penza

Here are our two Grandmothers.
How nice to see them together.
I remember they call each other 'kudagi'

Halime Ebe

My other Grandmother, Zuhre usually steps forward into the spotlight, with her oratory and singing and teaching and all. This Grandmother above, Halime Ebe, born in Chita - Siberia, was more famed for her sweetness in heart and in kitchen. During her life, she ran a boarding house in Tokyo, lived in Kobe, Japan and eventually retired to Sunny California.

We like this picture and it reminds us of a friend saying "Why did that JERK have to forever ruin a very cool style of moustache?"

Among Halime Ebe's archives are many more military photos. Turkey, as a member of NATO, sent troops to the Korean War under the supervision of the United States. She has many photos of her son Hayrullah's experience as a career tank commander in the Turkish military; many photos of soldiers standing next to piles of cannons and stuff that tank people would get all juiced up about.

Princess Lazarov Dressed in Tatar Costume

Essays on Tatar History

Dr. Boris Ischboldin 1963
New Book Society of India - New Delhi

Tatars of 1909

Kirim Tatars?