The legend of the Khan's untold treasures arose immediately after his flight from the capital Isker. According to legend, they have been kept for 4 centuries in the legendary underground palace on the island of Golden Us and are guarded by vicious venomous snakes. The location of the island has not yet been found.
Khan Kuchum, a Bukhara prince from the Shibanid dynasty, came to the Siberian throne through great blood. In the annals of Savva Esipov, it is reported that he was the king of "all Siberian land" for 40 years and was very fond of luxury. He ate and drank from gold dishes, dressed in sable and velvet. But then Ermak came and attacked the Chuvash town of Bitsik-Tura, where, according to legend, one of the many wives of the voluptuous khan lived and the main headquarters of Kuchum was located. The Russians fought with fierce tenacity and the ranks of the Tatars thinned out every hour.
The chronicle contains such a description of the despair of the khan, who realized that the hours of his reign were numbered. Kuchum, raising his hands to the sky, exclaimed doomly: "Oh, Allah, do you see that I did not give Siberia myself, but I took it to Ermak!" The bloody confrontation continued for several months. After another defeat, in impenetrable darkness, Kuchum disappeared in an unknown direction along with his closest relatives and bodyguards. His khanate fell. Kuchum's grave is unknown, and no one knows where his countless treasures disappeared.
Old people say that among the gloomy swamps near Tobolsk there is a mysterious island where Kuchum's weapons workshop was located. And then somewhere there an underground palace was built, in which the khan was hiding after the defeat of his troops.
The entrance to this palace leads through an underground corridor, which is protected by a sturdy secret door with a heavy cast lock. A few meters from the door there is a well, lined with brick, for the removal of harmful gases from the underground. They say that people threw stones at it, and they fell to the bottom only after a long time with a thud. There were even daredevils who tried to go down, but access was hampered by the very thin air and the abundance of snakes.
The old-timers of the Takhtair village claim that their fellow countryman named Arlam once visited the island. He brought a huge copper ring to the village, which he removed from the door leading to the dungeon. This door, according to stories, has grown into the ground up to the lock. A local old-timer named Pashka also saw her.
Expeditions in search of the underground palace were equipped many times, but they all returned with nothing. It is said that the initiates took an oath to preserve the secret. Therefore, finding an island with dungeons is possible only by chance.
An employee of the Tyumen brick factory, Nigmatullin, once told the journalist of Tyumenskaya Pravda, Alexander Chernyaev, about a mysterious island on which there is a strange brick chimney, and next to it is full of snakes. “They threw ten-meter poles at her. They fly for a few seconds, and then a booming knock is heard. The worker also told the location of this island - two dozen kilometers from the village of Ahmanai. The journalist immediately realized that this was the mythical Golden Horn. Nigmatullin even gave the journalist the address of the old hunter Khamid Raemgulov, who knew the way to the island.
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Chernyaev got fired up with the idea to find the island and the underground palace, to find the hidden treasures of Khan Kuchum. Despite the fact that it was a harsh winter, he took a business trip and went to Ahmanai. When he arrived at the place, it turned out that the owner had gone to the forest to collect firewood. The journalist was met by the hunter's wife, who immediately asked: “Why is my husband? Do you want to look for gold? and immediately became noticeably embarrassed, as if frightened by her words.
The journalist realized that he was on the right track. And when Raemgulov returned home, he began to persuade the old man to take him to the island. Finally he agreed. They went on a long skiing trip. At first we drove for several hours through a mixed forest. Then the forest began to thin out and stunted bushes appeared, and then - a swamp, among which a lonely hill with steep slopes rose with a huge curly cap. “This is that island,” said Raemgulov.
They somehow scrambled to its banks. Finally, they found the place where the "stone pipe" should have been. They began to dig up the snow, and finally got to the bottom of the brickwork. Here are Chernyaev's notes: “The brick is peculiar - red, twice as wide as usual. Each has a large round stamp, in the circle of which there is a barely distinguishable drawing of a bird (probably an eagle). " Unfortunately, they were unable to photograph the chimney, as a blizzard rose and snowflakes covered the camera lens.
Alexander Chernyaev barely waited for the onset of summer, and in June he went to the mysterious island as part of an entire expedition. He took with him a researcher at the regional museum, a television studio cameraman and two divers. In Akhmanay, they were joined by a guide - Hamid Raemgulov.
With great difficulty, the members of the expedition reached their goal, as they had to wade through a viscous swamp. They searched for a brick pipe for three days, but there were only rubble around. Hamid told Chernyaev that, apparently, having heard about the expedition, the old men hid it under the bushes.
Soon the treasure seekers faced another obstacle - a forest fire began in the swamp. The wall of fire was rapidly approaching. The members of the expedition had no choice but to hastily leave the mysterious island.
On the way back, they met an old man named Pashka, and began to ask him about the island. It turns out that when Pashka was 25 years old, he visited the island and saw tunnels underground, there were two of them. One of the hatches was closed by a door with locks.
After some time, the expedition, already with the help of Pashka, again tried to find the location of the entrances to the mythical castle of Khan Kuchum, but they failed to find them again. The old guide said that, apparently, the entrances are enchanted, and everyone has a chance to see them only once in a lifetime.
With grief in half, we found a site with strange pits. When they began to dig, at a meter depth they suddenly stumbled upon rotten pillars. And in the place of the slope, where, according to Pashka, the door should have been, they saw three ditches of equal size. Then came a thick log deck supported by a vertical wall of thick logs. With passion they began to dig further - it seemed that the goal was close, but there was no end to the logs.
The business trip ended, I had to return home. Arriving in Tyumen, Chernyaev received a strange letter. An anonymous author wrote: "Haid and Pashka took you to another island." Subsequently, a worker from the topographic party, Yasmanov, told a journalist about a meeting with a local resident, a deep old man. The old man said that Kuchum took all his gold from Isker and hid it deep underground. There are two passages to the Khan's underground castle, but where they are, he "will not show anyone for any awards and honors." Frustrated by failures, Chernyaev stopped looking for the strange island and the treasures hidden on it.
Is there actually an underground treasure palace? Is it on an island among the swamps or is it hidden in the dungeons under the capital of the khanate - Isker? It is only known that the Horde people, like a magnet, were drawn to the Akhmanai region. They tried to break into the swamps, apparently in the hope of taking away the hidden treasure.
It is not known whether the khan himself sent them, who "was left without any belly" and desperately needed gold, or, decrepit and blind, he himself was waiting for his comrades-in-arms among the swamps. And, perhaps, Kuchum preferred the underground castle over the expanse of feather grass steppes that raised it. And whiling away the time, with trembling, disobedient fingers, he fingered the rosary, as if counting the remaining days allotted to him by the will of Allah.