Därdemänd

Who was Därdemänd?

Zakir Sadíq ulı Rämiev who used the pen name Därdmänd or Derdmend was a famous Tatar poet, manufacturer and patron of arts. He was a founder of the newspaper Vakit and the literary magazine Şura.[1]

He is a major representative of classical Tatar literature. Because he came from an affluent family of the tzarist regime, he was persecuted by the Soviet administration and intentionally ignored as a poet, and his name and works were deleted from literary histories. His father was Muhammed Sadiq Rameev, the well-known gold-miner of the Ural Mountains.