Ubaydulla Salih oglu ( Uzb. Zavqiy Ubaydullo Solih oʻgʻli, Zaviy Ubaydullo Soliҳli , 1853-1921) - Kokand , Russian and Soviet Uzbek poet, who wrote in Uzbek and Tajik languages. Most of his creative heritage consists of satirical works on topical political themes, although there are lyric poems as well as love gazelles (early works).
Ubavi Ubaydulla Salih oglu | |
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Date of Birth | 1853 |
Place of Birth | Kokand , Kokand Khanate , Russian Empire |
Date of death | 1921 |
Citizenship (citizenship) | |
Occupation | poet |
Genre | satire , lyrics , gazelle |
Language of Works | Uzbek , Tajik |
Born in Kokand , at that time the capital of the Kokand Khanate, in the family of an artisan. Educated in madrasas in 1870-1874. In 1874-1875 he wrote the poem "Demish Khan", which was a sharp satire on the rule of the Khan Khudoyar Khan of Kokand. He was a supporter of the annexation of Kokand to the Russian Empire and with great sympathy for Russian culture. After the October Revolution and the beginning of the Civil War, he supported the establishment of Soviet power in Uzbekistan , in the USSR was considered one of the founders of Soviet Uzbek literature.
The most famous works are the poems “The Accident with Victor” and “Abdurakhman Shaitan”, in which the Muslim clergy and various bribe-takers and speculators are satirically mocked, the poem “Satire on Merchants” (1905-1906), where merchants, brokers and officials of Kokand period The Russian Empire, as well as the poems of "The Lord" (1916) and "The Robber Ergash" (1918), in which the object of satire are the bourgeois nationalists.
In the last years of his life, he wrote satirical poems against the Basmachis and the White Guards. This led to the fact that at the end of 1920 he was captured by the Basmachis and died in early 1921 in captivity from beatings and bullying.
Bibliography
- Razozov Ҳ., Zavziy. Kayoti va izhodi, Tashkent, 1955.
- Edward Allworth: Uzbek Literary Politics. Mouton & Co .; London, Den Haag, Paris 1964.
Links
- Zavka Ubaidulla Salih oglu - article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .