
Firdousi at the Audience with Skah of Mazandaran
Oil on canvas
Azerbaijan National Museum of Art
Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi, also Firdawsi (935–1026), was a Persian poet and the author of Shahnameh (“Book of Kings”), which is one of the world’s longest epic poems created by a single poet, and the national epic of Greater Iran. Ferdowsi is celebrated as one of the most influential figures of Persian literature. More on Firdousi
Mazandaran Province is an Iranian province located along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and in the adjacent Central Alborz mountain range, in central-northern Iran
Azim Aslan oglu Azimzade (7 May 1880–15 June 1943) was an Azerbaijani artist and caricaturist. He was awarded the honorary title of People’s Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.
Azim Azimzade was born on 7 May 1880 in the village of Novxanı in the Baku Governorate of the Russian Empire which is now present-day Azerbaijan. The son of an oil industry worker, he had four siblings, each of whom died before the age of 10…
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