ÃœtämeÅŸgäräy (1546–1566) was
Khan of the
Kazan Khanate
The Khanate of Kazan was a Tatars, Tatar state that occupied the territory of the former Volga Bulgaria between 1438 and 1552. The khanate covered contemporary Tatarstan, Mari El, Chuvashia Republic, Chuvashia, Mordovia, and parts of Udmurti ...
from 1549 to 1551. He was the son of
Safagäräy and
Söyembikä.
Upon his father's death he was crowned Khan at the age of two with his mother serving as regent.
Ivan the Terrible
Ivan IV Vasilyevich (; – ), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible,; ; monastic name: Jonah. was Grand Prince of Moscow, Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar of all Russia, Tsar and Grand Prince of all R ...
took advantage of this situation and sent an army which besieged Kazan in February 1550. An early thaw caused Ivan to pull back and build the fort of
Sviyazhsk
Sviyazhsk (; ) is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia, located at the confluence of the Volga and Sviyaga Rivers. It is often referred to as an island since the 1955 construction of the Kuybyshev Reservoir downstr ...
from which his army raided the surrounding country. The peace faction in Kazan came to power and accepted the Russian candidate Shah Ali as khan, turning over Utameshgaray and his mother to the Russians. Shortly after this, the patriotic faction regained power, expelled Shah Ali and brought in
Yadegar Mokhammad of Kazan who was khan when the Russians conquered Kazan in 1552.
In January 1553, Utameshgaray was baptized as a Christian, taking the name Alexander. He died at the age of 20 and is buried in Moscow. His mother was later married to Shah Ali.
References
*Henry Hoyle Howorth, History of the Mongols, 1880, Part 2, pp 405-409
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1546 births
1566 deaths
Khanate of Kazan
Borjigin
Converts to Eastern Orthodoxy from Sunni Islam
16th-century monarchs in Europe
Russian former Sunni Muslims
Tatar Christians