azerbaijan13, baku - an outdoor art gallery1
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Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan. It is located on the Absheron peninsula, the “head” of the Azerbaijani eagle, in a bay at the Caspian Sea. It is the largest city of Azerbaijan as well as of the South Caucasus and the political, economic and cultural center of Azerbaijan
Koroghlu is the main hero of epic with the same name in Azerbaijani and Turkish as well as some other Turkic languages. The epic tells about the life and heroic deeds of Koroghlu as a hero of the people who struggled against unjust rulers. The epic combines the occasional romance with Robin Hood-like chivalry.
Fuzuli (c.1494 – 1556) was the pen name of the Azeri or the Bayat branch of Oghuz Turkic and Ottoman poet, writer and thinker Muhammad bin Suleyman
Often considered one of the greatest contributors to the Divan tradition of Azerbaijani literature, Fuzuli in fact wrote his collected poems (divan) in three different languages: in his native Azeri, Persian, and Arabic
Secession-style opera house, built
within a year in 1911 by the
wealthy Mailov brothers to lure
the great Russian soprano Antonina
Nezhdanova to the city
A fellow oil baron, Zeynalabdin
Taghiyev, bet it would not be ready in time and when it
was, he paid the entire bill
Bahram Gur, sculptural fountain,
considered as first one in
Baku is devoted to epic hero of
Nizami Ganjavi's "The
Seven Beauties". Created by sculptors
Albert Mustafayev,
Qorxmaz Sucaddinov and Aslan
Rustamov in 1960s.
The author of monument is Yuri
Grigoryevich Orekhov - the
people's artist of the Russia, laureate of
the Lenin's and State Prizes of the
USSR, Vise-President of the Russian
Academy of Arts, honored member of Fine Arts Academy
of Carrara
Azerbaijani-Georgian Friendship Statue. Monumental composition "the released energy," decorates the park "Friendship of Peoples"
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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanu
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Sound: Aziza Mustafa Zadeh Trio - Atashkeh