Utameshgaray of Kazan

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Ütämeşgäräy (/ytæmeʃgæ`ræɪ/, also spelled Ütämeş, Ötemiş Giray, Utyamysh) (15461566) was a khan of Kazan Khanate in 1549-1551. He was a son of Safagäräy and Söyembikä. He was crowned after father's death, but the actual ruler was his mother. During the siege of Kazan in 1551 pro-muscovite nobility betrayed him and Soyembika to Russian tsar Ivan IV. In January, 1553 he was baptized as Alexander.

  • (Tatar) "Үтәмешгәрәй". Tatar Encyclopedia. (2002). Kazan: Tatarstan Republic Academy of Sciences Institution of the Tatar Encyclopaedia.
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