He was descendant of Genghis Khan and due to his knowledge on the dogmas of Islam, he earned himself the nickname "Saint of the Mohammedan law".
[2] In his youth, he was in honorary captivity of the Kalmyk Khan Ayuka, from where he eventually passed to the Bashkirs, who rebelled against the Russian Empire in 1704.
[4][2] Due to the propaganda by Murat Kuchukov, who became popular in the Northeast Caucasus, influential North Caucasian peoples, especially the Aukhs, began revolting against the local princes and Tsarist administration.
Heavy Russian and Kalmyk reinforcements soon arrived however, and decisively defeated the rebel forces, wounding and capturing Murat in late February 1708.
[5][2] Murat was brought to Kazan, where, on the personal orders of Peter I, he was sentenced to death and soon after, executed by hanging on a hook.