Abai (Ibragim) Kunanbayev is a Kazakh poet, composer, educator, thinker, public figure, the founder of Kazakh written literature and its first classic, a cultural reformer in the spirit of rapprochement with European culture based on enlightened Islam. Abai Kunanbayev had a great influence on the emerging Kazakh national intelligentsia of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Thus, the leaders of the Alash-Orda movement perceived Abai as their spiritual forerunner and even the spiritual leader of the revival of the Kazakh nation. Alikhan Bukeikhanov became the first biographer of Abai. His article "Abai (Ibrahim) Kunanbayev" - the obituary of the Kazakh national poet was published in the newspaper "Semipalatinsky leaf" in 1905. Then, with a portrait of Abai, she was published in the journal "Notes of the Semipalatinsk Subdivision of the West Siberian Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society" in 1907.
Abai (Ibragim) Kunanbayev is a Kazakh poet, composer, educator, thinker, public figure, the founder of Kazakh written literature and its first classic, a cultural reformer in the spirit of rapprochement with European culture based on enlightened Islam. Abai Kunanbayev had a great influence on the emerging Kazakh national intelligentsia of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Thus, the leaders of the Alash-Orda movement perceived Abai as their spiritual forerunner and even the spiritual leader of the revival of the Kazakh nation. Alikhan Bukeikhanov became the first biographer of Abai. His article "Abai (Ibrahim) Kunanbayev" - the obituary of the Kazakh national poet was published in the newspaper "Semipalatinsky leaf" in 1905. Then, with a portrait of Abai, she was published in the journal "Notes of the Semipalatinsk Subdivision of the West Siberian Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society" in 1907.