Suleyman Sani Akhundov’s archive and textological analysis of memories (To the 150th anniversary of the writer)

Abstract

 The personal archive of Suleyman Sani Akhundov, a prominent representative of Azerbaijani literature of the 20th century, is kept in the Institute of Manuscripts named after Muhammad Fuzuli of ANAS. Archive No. 10 consists of 205 storage units. The archive contains autographs of the writer's works, biographical documents, letters, photographs, printed books. The documents in the archive are grouped into sections, and the folder where it is stored indicates the storage unit, volume, language and alphabet in which each document is stored. The archive of Suleyman Sani Akhundov was described and published in 1962. The article highlights the book's peculiarities and the importance of its republication, as it does not comply with modern principles of description. Many archival samples differ from the published version. One such example is the writer's memoirs. The article provides information about manuscript and published copies of the memoirs, analyzing them from a textual point of view and showing the differences between the copies.