Mikayıl Müşfiq
Mikayıl Müşfiq ( Russian Микаил Мушфиг Mikail Muschfig , actually Mikayıl İsmayılzadə ; born June 5, 1908 in Baku , Russian Empire , † March 12, 1939 in Baku, Soviet Union ) was an Azerbaijani poet of the 1930s. During the Stalinist purges in the Soviet Union, Müşfiq was imprisoned and executed by the Soviet authorities at the age of 30.
Life
Mikayıl Müşfiq completed his training at the Russian-Tatar school in Baku. After the establishment of the Soviet system in Azerbaijan in 1920, he began his studies at the Baku Teachers' School and finished it in 1931 at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature of the Baku State University .
Müşfiq began his professional career as a teacher. It was at this time that he started writing poetry. His first poem, "Bir Gün" (The Day) , was published in 1926 in the Ganj fahla newspaper. From that time on he used the pseudonym Müşfiq . Together with Samad Vurgun and Rasul Rza, he was one of the founders of the new Soviet-Azerbaijani poetry style of the 1930s. In addition, Müşfiq translated a number of poems from Russian into Azerbaijani.
In his works, Müşfiq glorified the work of industrial workers and peasants and praised the establishment of industrial plants. According to Müşfiq's wife, Dilbər Axundzadə, he welcomed the replacement of Arabic with Latin script in Azerbaijan in 1927. His delight is reflected in the following verses:
And while saying goodbye
my soul would like to say to you:
goodbye! Your last day has come,
wretched old alphabet!
During the Stalinist purges in the 1930s, resisting state efforts to ban the " tar ", an Azerbaijani national instrument, Müşfiq wrote a poem entitled "Singe Tar, Sing".
Arrest and execution
For his efforts to protect Azerbaijani culture from being destroyed by the Soviet authorities, Müşfiq in the Association of Azerbaijani Writers was attacked.
Some literary personalities, serving the interests of the Stalin regime, branded Müşfiq as a “chauvinist” and a “petty-bourgeois poet”. In 1937 he was imprisoned as "enemy of the state" and 1939 in Bayil prison near Baku executed . He was later officially exonerated.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Farid Alakbarow: Poet Mikayil Mushfig . In: Azerbaijan International , 2002
- ↑ Dilbar Akhundzadeh: My days with Mushfig . Baku 1968
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müşfiq, Mikayıl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | İsmayılzadə, Mikayıl (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Azerbaijani poet and victim of the Stalinist terror |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baku , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1939 |
| Place of death | Baku , Soviet Union |