Aliagha Mammadgulu oghlu Isgandarov
(
Azerbaijani
:
?lia?a M?mm?dqulu o?lu ?sg?nd?rov
; 17 February
[1]
1895, in
Baku
? 1 October 1965, in Baku), was an
Azerbaijani
poet and Honoured Artist of the
Azerbaijan SSR
(1943). He was known for reintroducing medieval
ghazal
style in
Soviet Azerbaijani
poetry.
Life and creativity
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Aliagha Vahid was born on February 17,
[1]
1895 in a family of a carpenter. From his earliest years, he worked as an unskilled laborer and helped his father. His received his first education in
madrasa
, but not finishing it, entered the literary society “Mejmeush-shuara”. There he befriended such poets as Muniri, Azer Imamaliyev and other popular poets of Baku of that epoch. Under their creative influence, he wrote his first lyrical poems. In his early satirical poems he criticized social deficiencies in the society, superstition and narrow-mindedness, tyranny and unfairness. These poems would enter his first collection of poems titled
The Result of Avidity
. Later, under the influence of
Fuzuli
’s and
Seyid Azim
’s works, he began to write
ghazals
. His ghazels were popular among people and that is why he was nicknamed Ghazelkhan.
Wahid greeted the
October Revolution
and establishment of the
Soviet power
in
Azerbaijan
enthusiastically. He actively agitated for the Soviet power in his poems, such as
To My Comrade Laborers and Soldiers
,
What Does the School Mean
,
Elevate, my angel...
and others. In 1924, Wahid got acquainted with
Sergei Yesenin
, who was living in Baku, in
Mardakan
village with short breaks. Later, this acquaintanceship turned into a strong friendship.
[2]
This fact was mentioned in writer-publicist Huseyngulu Najafov’s “May of
Balakhany
” narrative. After the establishment of the Soviet power and creation of the
Azerbaijan SSR
he collaborated with “
Kommunist
” newspaper and satirical magazine “
Molla Nasraddin
”. In his collections called “Couplets” (1924) and “Mollakhana” (1938) he vented satirical flaw of criticism to opponents of the new system.
[3]
Battle Ghazels
(1943) and
Ghazels
(1944), the books written during the
Great Patriotic War
, tackled love to the Motherland, hatred for the enemy and faith in victory.
Being the follower of Fuzuli's literary tendencies, Aliagha Vahid was an eminent representative of the gazel genre in the Soviet culture. Aliagha Wahid was also engaged in translation of ghazels of
Nizami
, Fuzuli,
Khaqani
and other classics into
Azerbaijani language
. He is assumed to be the founder of
meykhana
, the modern genre of ghazel.
Aliagha Vahid died on the night of 30 September 1965 in Baku and was buried in the
Alley of Honor
.
Memory
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Aliagha Vahid's monument in
Old City
, Baku.
- A school, park, garden (former Gubernatorial garden), house of literature and a street in Baku were named after Aliagha Vahid.
- A large 1990 bronze bust of Vahid, incorporating allegorical figures into his hair, stands in a small garden area of Baku's
Old City
just behind the metro station of the same name. It was moved to that location in 2009, having previously sat in the gardens of the
Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall
, on the south side of the city walls.
[4]
- In 1991, a film titled
Ghazelkhan
, dedicated to Vahid's life and creativity, was shot at the film studio
Azerbaijanfilm
.
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