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- Armenian novelist Alexander Shirvanzade was born Aleksandr Movsesyan in Shirvan, Azerbaijan, in 1858. His father was a tailor. At age 17 Shirvanzade found work in the Caspian Sea city of Baku, Azerbaijan, which was seeing a boom because of its vast oil reserves. He worked in various capacities--clerk, accountant--for a number of different oil companies, but still found time to immerse himself in the works of Russian and Armenian writers, as well as such Western European writers as Honoré de Balzac, Emile Zola and William Shakespeare. Seeing the effects--both good and bad, but mostly bad--that the oil boom was having on the average citizens in the Baku area, he wrote a flurry of novels, plays, articles, etc., protesting against what he saw as the exploitation of both the land and its people by the oil interests, and became active in social protest movements outside Baku. In 1894 he led protests against the Turkish massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, resulting in his imprisonment in TIflis, Georgia; that experience produced what many believe to be his finest work, "Chaos" (1896).
Upon his release from prison he began to agitate for a cause that not many men of the era considered important--women's rights. His plays "Evgine" and "Did She Have the Right?" were about giving women the right to vote. "For the Sake of Honor" (1904) railed against the injustices and excesses of capitalism. In 1916 Russian writer Maxim Gorky praised Shirvanzade's works, saying they "were known and read not only in the Caucasus but also in England, in the Scandinavian Peninsula, and Italy."
In his later years he lived abroad but returned to Armenia in 1926 and settled in Yerevan. He died in Kislovodsk, Armenia, in 1935. - Hovhannes Abelyan was born on 4 November 1865 in Shemakha, Shemakha uyezd, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire [now Shamakhi, Shamakhi Rayon, Azerbaijan]. He was an actor, known for Honor (1925). He died on 1 July 1936 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Armenia].
- Mikail Mirzoyev was born on 1 January 1947 in Shemakha, Azerbaijan, USSR. He was an actor, known for Struktura momenta (1980), Chelovek, kotoryy bral intervyu (1987) and Yeddi Ogul Istäräm (1970). He died on 3 June 2006.
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Ismail Efendiyev was born on 10 August 1910 in Shemakha, Shemakha uyezd, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire [now Shamakhi, Shamakhi Rayon, Azerbaijan]. He was an actor and director, known for Kölgalar sürünür (1958), O Olmasin, Bu Olsun (1956) and Arshin Takes a Wife (1945). He died on 30 May 1967 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR [now Azerbaijan].- Georgi Kholopov was born on 9 November 1914 in Shemakha, Azerbaidjian. He was a writer, known for Doker (1974), Bereg yunosti (1969) and Mayor muzyki (1976). He died on 31 December 1989 in Leningrad, USSR.
- Garaybeyli was born in the city of Shamakhi, but like many natives of that city at the time, he found himself in Baku after the devastating earthquake of 1902. Garaybeyli became an orphan at a young age and was brought up by a foster family. While still in school, he started attending drama clubs for actors-to-be established by Huseyn Arablinski. He made his first stage appearance in 1917.
Beginning in 1921, with the help of Uzeyir Hajibeyov, he started attending courses in professional acting. It was also when Garaybeyli got married. In the following years, he acted in over 200 different roles, including both stage and film appearances. Garaybeyli was also known as a voice actor in a number of movies. From 1933 until the end of his life, he worked in the Azerbaijan State Drama Theatre. In 1940 he was awarded the title of People's Artist of Azerbaijan.
He died in Baku, four months before his 92nd birthday.