Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev
| Abdurrahim bey Asad bey oglu Hagverdiyev | |
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17 May 1870 Shusha, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 17 December 1933 (aged 63) Baku |
| Occupation | playwright, stage director, politician and public figure |
Abdurrahim bey Asad bey oglu Hagverdiyev (Azerbaijani: Əbdürrəhim bəy Haqverdiyev) (17 May 1870 – 17 December 1933) was an Azerbaijani playwright, stage director, politician and public figure.
Abdurrahim bey was born in a Shusha suburb (then part of the Russian Empire, now in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan) to court reporter Asad bey Hagverdiyev and his wife Husnujahan. After losing his father, he lived with his uncle's family, and later back with his mother who had married a local official. He studied at a two-year Russian-Muslim school, then perfected his Russian at Malik-Hagnazarov's School and in 1884 enrolled in a seven-year Shusha Realschule. In his final year her was transferred to the Realschule in Tiflis. At age 14, he got acquainted with theatre for the first time by watching the adaptation of Mirza Fatali Akhundov's play Khirs guldurbasan. Upon graduating he was admitted to the Saint Petersburg Institute of Transportation Engineering and attended lectures in Oriental Studies at the Saint Petersburg University as a visiting student. During the eight-year period spent in Saint Petersburg, Hagverdiyev also excelled in French, which helped him to get to know traditions of the Western European drama.
In 1892, Hagverdiyev wrote his first dramatical piece, a comedy entitled Yeyarsan gaz atini, gorarsan lazzatini. The book was almost immediately published thanks to benevolent Muslim societies of the Russian capital. While in Saint Petersburg, Hagverdiyev wrote the first epic tragedy in the Azeri language, Daghilan tifag ("The Breaking of Unity", 1896). In 1899 he returned to Shusha and got involved in theatre directing. Alongside he continued to write plays, namely Bakhtsiz javan ("The Unlucky Young Man", 1900) and Pari Jadu ("Nymph Magic", 1901). In 1907 he finished his historical tragedy Agha Mohammad Shah Qajar, which brought him great fame. Beginning in 1906 Hagverdiyev wrote for the satirical magazine Molla Nasraddin. In 1908 he directed Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov's opera Leyli and Majnun. In 1911–1916 he lived in Agdam having dedicated himself mostly to writing fiction. In the next two years he lived and worked in Tiflis as a reporter for the local Russian-language newspaper.
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