Dzhien Zhrau, Tagai Uly

Dates of birth and death unknown. Eighteenth-century Kara-Kalpak poet.

Dzhien Zhrau is the first known representative of Kara-Kalpak written poetry as well as a performer of many folk epics such as The Forty Maidens, Alpamys and Maspatsha. His narrative poem The Ravaged People is one of the most significant works of prerevolutionary Kara-Kalpak poetry. It depicts a tragic episode in the history of the Kara-Kalpak people: their forced resettlement in 1756 from Turkestan to Khorezm as a result of continual raids by neighboring feudal khans.