Among the songs about the colonization of the Bashkir lands we should pick out the song "Taftileu" as the most common song of this theme.

"Rocky are the banks of the Aghidel River
Where Tevkelev the colonel raged once,
To the flames the Bashkort land he committed,
Golden shoulder-straps he’d got for the crime.

No saddle feels a horse underneath,
It’s the horse that carries its weight.
Nor does colonel Tevkelev know his evil deeds,
It’s the people who subsequently bleed.

Where the forest of dark adjoins the rock,
And the tree-leaves rustle in the breeze,
There lies my curse, inscribed on its top,
For all of my descendants to read".