Poet and writer (b.
1859, Şıkı / Republic of Kabardino-Balkar – d. 1945, Kazakhstan). His father,
Bekki, gave Kâzim, who was lame from birth, near his teacher who came from
Daghistan in order to be an imam. His teacher taught him Literature of Arabic,
Persian and Ottoman. He was known as Kazim Hacı among the public because of
that he went to hajj three times. Readers and Litterateurs know him as Kazım.
He visited Turkey, in addition to Arabic Countries.
He became a public poet
who shared the pain of public under the press of Czardom Russia, Local
Administration and Rich Ground Owners. He laid the written literature of
Balkars New Age. He was a man in the nationalism process of Balkars.
He supported Russian
Revolution at first except religion subject. Because new system promised to
answer all subjects that was questioned by poet. But he wasn’t late to see that
he couldn’t accept whole system of Soviet Russia. He opposed to exile,
genocide, keeping the religion under thumb, resorting to brute forces sometimes
with his poems and sometimes directly. He was interred an unknown graveyard
after he lived in bad conditions in exile and died. After youth public poets
turned back Kazakhstan, they found his grave in Telman Village of Taldı Kurgan
in 39th year of his death. Then in 1999 his corpse was brought
Nalchik and re-interred next to the Monument that was built for the memoir of
wronged of Stalin System.
WORKS:
Soltanhamit al Çegemi (Sultanhamit from Çegem, 1918), Meni Sözüm (My Words, 1940), Saylamala
(Ensuring, 1959), Seçilmiş Şiirler,
Kâzim (Selected Poems, Kâzim, Russian, 1959), Ogon Oçaga (Fire of Stove, Russia, Moscow, 1970), Nazmula Kitabı (Poetry Book, 1984), Çığarmalarını Eki Tomluğu (Selected
Works, 2 Volumes, edit. by Alim Töppeev, 1989), Kâzim Meçiev (Kâzim Meçiev, 1987), Kâzim (Kazim, edit by Abdullah Begiev, 1996).
