Life and creative work of Eynali bey Sultanov

Abstract

In the article is provided detailed information about the life, activities and creativity of Eynali bey Sultanov who was a prominent literary figure of Azerbaijani literature in the early of 20th century and was known as publicist, writer, specialist in folklore, translator, theatre organizer and active defender of literary front of mollanasraddinists.

Eynali bey Sultanov served the formation of an enlightening environment in Nakhchivan while still studying in high school. The Tbilisi period of Eynali bey Sultanov’s life started in 1908 and lived there mainly until the end of his life. He had worked as a special correspondent of the newspaper “Kaspi” on Yerevan and Nakhchivan and secretary of Tbilisi branch in New Alphabet Committee since 1924. At the beginning of the 20th century Eynali bey Sultanov also contributed closely to the development of the Tbilisi theater environment at a new stage. He was a skillful publicist and a unique writer. In his stories the village of Azerbaijan and the life of villagers have been described. One of the greatest services of Eynali bey Sultanov was the translation of samples of Azerbaijani literature into Russian. He translated the comedies “Molla Ibrahimkhalil – the Chemist” and “Haji Gara” by M.F.Akhundzade into Russian and published both works in the Russian language.