Kurmanzhan Datka Statue — Attraction in Bishkek City

(1-Kurmanzhan Datka Statue (2-Memorial For Red Guards Kurmanjan was born into a rich family of the Mungush clan in the Osh region. At the age of 18 she was supposed to be married to a man whom she did not see until her wedding day. When she met him, she did not like him and broke with tradition — first fleeing into neighboring China and later deciding to stay with her father, Mambatbai. In 1832, the local feudal lord, Alimbek, who had taken the title "Datka" and ruled all the Kyrgyz of the Alai, was attracted by the young, vivacious woman and married her. An instrumental politician in the increasingly decrepit Kokand khanate, Alimbek was murdered in the course of a palace coup in 1862 and his widow Kurmanjan was recognized by the khans of Bukhara and Kokand as ruler of the Alai and given the title of "Datka".[2]

In 1876 the Alai region was annexed by the Russian Empire. Recognizing the futility of resistance, Kurmanjan Datka persuaded her people to accept Russian overlordship. During the subsequent continuing unrest and sporadic attempts by the local population to shake off Russian supremacy, gun-running and smuggling were profitable businesses and two of Kurmanjan's sons and two of her grandsons were charged with contraband trade and murdering customs officials.[3] When her favourite son was sentenced to death, she refused the urging of some of her followers to effect a rescue, saying that she would not let her private hopes and ambitions be the cause of suffering for her people; she actually attended her son's public execution. The others were then exiled to Siberia and she essentially retired from public life.[citation needed]

Soon after Kurmanjan-datka became a hermit, she was reported to the emperor Nicholas II, and he decided to give her a special royal gift — a gold ladies' watch with the image of the state emblem of the empire with a chain and brooch, decorated with diamonds and roses. Accompanied by numerous mounted guards, the Osh district chief arrived in the village of Mady, solemnly presenting the "Queen of the South" with a gift from the emperor.

In 1906, she was visited by Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (later President of Finland) who was a colonel in the Russian army at the time. Mannerheim took her photograph. She died six months later.[2] Kurmanjan Datka lived to be well over 96 and was survived by two sons, two daughters, 31 grandsons, 57 great grandsons and six great-great-grandsons.[citation needed]

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Kurmanjan Datka (Kyrgyz: Курманжан Датка) or Datka Kurmanjan Mamatbay kyzy (22 may, 1811; Orok, Pamir Alai, Osh Region, Khanate of Kokand – 1 February 1907; Mady, Fergana Region, Russian Empire), also known as "The Tsaritsa of Alai" (The Queen of Alai) or "The Queen of the South", was a politician in Kyrgyzstan who acquiesced under duress to the annexation of that region to Russia. She was a female tribal leader and nicknamed Queen.

If she is familiar, that's because she is featured in one of the Kyrgyzstani Som bills.

Kind of reminds me of Olena Tyrell of...

На сегодняшний день Курманджан-датка принадлежит к немногочисленной категории женщин, которые когда-либо вставали во главе мусульманского государства. Курманжа́н-да́тка — киргизский государственная и военная деятельница, предводительница и правительница алайских киргизов с 1832 по 1876 годы. Также известна как «Алайская царица», «Королева Юга» и «Мать нации». Имела звание датка (царица) в Кокандском ханстве и Бухарском эмирате. Когда ей исполнилось 18 лет, родители Курманжан хотели выдать её замуж за мужчину, который был втрое старше девушки, но она, нарушив традицию, сбежала из юрты жениха и вернулась в дом своего отца. В 1832 году богатый алайский феодал бек Алимбек, имевший звание датки и возглавлявший племена алайских киргизов, освободил Курманджан от брачного договора и взял её в законные жёны. Она родила ему пятерых сыновей. Правление перешло к ней после...