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2018110th Anniversary of the Prominent Azerbaijani Poet Mikayil Mushfig - Set

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Technical details
  • 07.11.2018
  • Vugar Eyyubov
  • Bobruisk Integrated Printing House, Bobruisk city, Belarus
  • Offset printing. Chalk-surfaced, gummed paper
  • Four-color printing
  • Stamp size: 37x52 mm
About 110th Anniversary of the Prominent Azerbaijani Poet Mikayil Mushfig

Mikayil Mushfig (Azerbaijani: Mikayıl Müşfiq, born Mikayil Ismayilzade) (5 June 1908, Baku – 6 January 1938, Baku) was an Azerbaijani poet of the 1930s. Most of his poetry is about romance, nature, feelings. Despite this, he soon became one of the slandered and criticized poets in the Union of Soviet Azerbaijani Writers, and soon afterwards, Mushfig was arrested and executed by Soviet authorities at the age of 30 during the Stalinist purges in the USSR. In 1956, he was exonerated posthumously. Nikita Khrushchev era of de-stalinization has resulted in Mushfig's poetry being famous in Azerbaijani society.