One of the famous, and revered philanthropist in Azerbaijan, Russia, and in most Muslim globe was Haji Zeynalabdin Tagiyev. He was known as the Father of the Nation. Having been bor in 1821, and flower in shoemaker family in Baku. Using the learning brickwork to help provide for his group of 7 siblings after his mothers death. At eighteenth, he was currently a service provider, and his dedication to work ensured speedy professional advancement. He purchased land near the oil-booming city of Bibi-Heybat, which was expected to be abundant in oil, simply by mid-1873 along with two companions.
However all of their attempts were in vain, the intention was to discover oil. Tagiyevs companions marketed their share to him, after a whilst. It would not take long time, and the oil gushed forth from one from the wells in 1877 ultimately causing Tagiyevs quickly becoming one of many richest guys. This was only a beginning. This individual invested the amount of money in the many profitable organization in the 1870-90s oil, he managed to save. He was main Azerbaijani oil entrepreneurs to establish a basis for the introduction of non-oil business from essential oil profits. Having been the president of the Baku Merchant Lender, and worked in property. His pursuits covered just about every sector of Azerbaijans economy, he committed to metallurgy, shipbuilding, energy, organic cotton, fishing, wine-making, and communications, he possessed large woodlands. He was also a great super star, not only a successful entrepreneur.
Muslim, Russian, and Legislation charity communities of Baku elected him the honorary chairman. Having been elected for the Baku Duma, and was involved in a large number of civic tasks, particularly in financing the construction of a horse-drawn tramline, plus the Baku-Shollar normal water pipeline to resolve the water crisis. He created the initial theatre building in Pokok, in 1883 known as Tagiyevs Theater. Afterwards it become the Azerbaijan Point out Theatre of Musical Funny, and helped to repair it after reactionists burned that down in 1909. In 1911, he covered every one of the expenses to get the construction of what might later become the Azerbaijan State Academic Safari, and Entracte Theatre. In Baku, Ganja, Shamakhi, and Nakhchivan as well as beyond the borders in Tiflis, Derbend, Vladikavkaz, and other cities Tagiyev sponsored the founding of educational institutions. He was honorary director of the Muslim School in Tiflis as well as the owner of Bakus secondary technical school, the School of Commerce, as well as the Mariinsky Womens Gymnasium. This individual arranged to get the construction of your mosque, and evening self-education courses for the employees from the textile manufacturer, a school for their children, a pharmacy, a first-aid post, and a mill. Totally this projects cost Tagiyev more than 6th million gold rubles. This individual sold his oil business interest to Anglo-Russian Essential oil Company to get 5 , 000, 000 rubles. In two, and half years, they had attained more than 7. 5 mil rubles in net earnings. It should be mentioned that to be able to diversify into other sectors of the Caucasuss economy Tagiyev sold his oil corporations. He accumulated shares inside the Oleum Company established based on these companies to the amount of 18 million rubles, which allowed him to carry on accumulating capital created inside the oil sector. Tagiyev put in significant sums into the linen, food, construction, and shipbuilding industries, along with fishery, during this time period.
Later on, in 1890, Tagiyev bought the Caspian Steamship Firm, renovated this, and create a fleet of 12 steamboats. This individual provided scholarships for many Azerbaijani youths who have strived to sudy in prestigious Russian and Euro universities. Some later started to be well known, including writer Mammed Said Ordubadi, politicians Nariman Narimanov, and Aziz Aliyev, professor Khudadat bey Malik-Aslanov, and safari singer Shovkat Mammadova. Tagiyev was a proponent of academic enlightenment for the young years of Azerbaijanis, though illiterate himself. Even though the clergy made obstacles to get the submitting of secularism-oriented literature just like that by Seyid Azim Shirvani, Tagiyev would assist in getting it printed in his personal publishing home in Tehran. Tagiyev was at favor of translating the Koran into Azerbaijani, being a devout Muslim. This was vehemently opposed by the local local clergy who presumed the content of Koran was holy, and of divine origin and therefore, no-one had the justification to translate that.
Tagiyev then dispatched a mullah (religious person) envoy to Baghdad whom came back with an official agreement from a board of Muslim college students to translate the Heiliges buch des islam. Tagiyev ordered the necessary tools from Leipzig and sponsored the translation, and the submitting. After Azerbaijans Sovietization in 1920 the countrys rich people suffered severe repressions from the Bolshevik government, resulting in the emigration of many of these.
Tagiyevs house and his other property were consequently confiscated. He was given the option to choose a place of home for him self, due to his past advantages and kindness. Tagiyev decided to stay in his summer holiday cottage in the community of Mardakan, not far from Baku. He perished there some years after, on 1 September the year of 1924 of pneumonia. After his death, the summer cottage was confiscated and Tagiyevs members of the family were driven out of it. His wife Sona, once a prosperous, educated and charitable noblewoman of the Caucasus, died in misery within the streets of Baku in 1938.
