The most famous enlightener of the caucasus in the memoirs

Mahammad Taghi Sidgui, who took a particular place in the history of the literature and enlightenment of Azerbaijan during 19th century was one of the famous enlightener of the Caucasus. In the Institute of Manuscripts of ANAS after named M. Fuzuli is preserved a rich found of his personal archives. Here are preserved various documents, manuscripts and letters. Sidgui's life and activities are more comprehensive analyzed in the memoirs which had been written about him. In these memoirs have been spoken about Sidgui's pedagogical activity, "Akhtar" and "Maktabi-tarbiyyah" - important schools in the Caucasus which he opened and about obstacles he met in the opening of these schools. Sidgui was a connoisseur of the classical Iranian literature and used to read and analyze Sadi's, Hafiz's, Firdovsi's and Nizami's poems to the pupils. By this way, he used to create interest and love for the literature. Besides, he used to buy newspapers – "Nassiri" from Iran, "Tarjuman" from Bakhchasaray, "Akhtar" from Istanbul, watching the events happened in the world, especially, in the Caucasus read attentively them and write articles in "Shargui-Russ" and "Hablulmatin" newspapers. Among the well-known intellectuals of the Caucasus – G.Sharifov, Dj.Mammadquluzadeh, N.Sheykhov, A.Kangarlinskiy, P.Soultanov and others were Sidgui's closest friends. They used to organize literary parties together and just at these parties used to read the newspapers come from the different parts of the world, analyze literary and political events, in general, the Caucasus region.

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