In article it is a question of the story of the unknown Bashkir sesen, published in 1812 in Kazan in T.Beljaev's translation. The story has been written, being based on a number of versions of the medieval epos ‘Kuzyikurpes and Majanhylyu’, having a wide distribution among the Bashkir, the Kazakh and of some the Turkic people of the Uralo-Volga region, Central Asia, Caucasus, Siberia and Altai.