Nizami Ganjavi
The 12th-century poet behind the Khamsa — born in Ganja and buried there.
nizami-gencevi.tut.az
Person
Banine
The granddaughter of oil millionaires who wrote in French from Paris.
Go to the sitebanin.tut.azA separate third-level domain with its own design
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How it will look: each site gets its own colour scheme and structure.
In brief
Umm-el-Banu Asadullayeva was born in Baku in 1905. After the revolution and exile she lived in Paris and wrote in French as Banine.
Her best-known book, Caucasian Days, recalls oil-boom Baku, her family, childhood and a lost world.
On the site
- 01BooksEditions and translations
- 02Oil-boom BakuFamily, houses, fortune
- 03ExileParis and its literary circles
- 04MemoryHer traces in Baku
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Composer of the first opera in the Muslim East and founder of Azerbaijani classical music.
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Muslim Magomayev
The Baku baritone who became the voice of several generations — from opera to pop.
muslum-maqomayev.tut.az