Personal archive of Jalil Mammadguluzadeh

Abstract

One of the places where materials related to the distant past of our history are stored is the
Institute of Manuscripts named after Muhammad Fuzuli of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan.
In addition to materials covering various fields of science, the Institute’s funds contain personal archives of
outstanding creative personalities, statesmen and socio-political figures who lived and worked in the 19th
20th centuries. This treasure, founded in 1934 on the basis of the archive of A.Bakikhanov, was subsequently
replenished by the transfer of the personal archives of many figures to the fund. Currently, this treasury,
consisting of 32 personal archives, also contains the archive (fund – 6) of the writer, playwright, publicist,
public figure, “the great master of small short stories”, who won eternity as the founder of the satirical press,
Jalil Mammadkulizadeh (1869-1932).
The presented article talks about the archive transferred to the Azerbaijan Branch of the Transcaucasian filial
Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR by his family at different times after the death of the writer.

At first, this not very rich archive was assessed for Mirzajalil scholars as the first source for studying the life
and work of the writer. There was also talk of replenishing the personal archive of J.Mammadkulizadeh due
to the materials received from M.Davatdarov, the Literary Museum named after Nizami Ganjavi, and also
during the writer's jubilee held at the state level.
In addition, the article talks about the merits of H.Samedzadeh as the first researcher of the archive of
J.Mammadguluzadeh in the transfer of these valuable materials (1935), preserved in the personal archive of
the writer, to future generations and the scientific community. For these purposes, the importance of the first
edition of the book “Description of the archive of Jalil Mammadguluzadeh (Molla Nasreddin)” (1961) and
the more improved second edition (2011), published 50 years later, is also discussed.