1. Mikayil Mushfig was an Azerbaijani poet of the 1930s.
12 Facts About Mikayil Mushfig
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Mikayil Mushfig is considered one of the founders of the new Azerbaijani poetic style.
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Nikita Khrushchev era of de-stalinization has resulted in Mikayil Mushfig's poetry being famous in Azerbaijani society.
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Mikayil Mushfig was born in the city of Baku of Baku Governorate in 1908.
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Mikayil Mushfig lost his parents in early childhood, so he was brought up by the relatives.
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Mikayil Mushfig received his elementary education at Russian-language School in Baku.
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Mikayil Mushfig translated a number of poems from Armenian and Russian as well.
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Mikayil Mushfig actively promoted traditional Azerbaijani musical instruments, which had been forbidden at that time.
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When Stalin and Mir Jafar Baghirov decreed that traditional Azerbaijani musical instruments, including the tar, were to be banned, Mikayil Mushfig wrote a poem in response titled "Sing Tar, Sing".
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Mikayil Mushfig himself came under the barrage of criticism in the Azerbaijani Writers' Union along with some other literary figures of the era such as Huseyn Javid, Ahmed Javad and Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli.
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Mikayil Mushfig was arrested in 1937, charged with treason as "the enemy of the state", and executed in 1939 in the Bayil prison near Baku.
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On May 23,1956, under the decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of USSR, Mikayil Mushfig was acquitted after his death.