Sidgi Ruhulla


Ruhulla Fatulla oghlu Axhundov was a Soviet and Azerbaijani actor and theater director. People's Artist of the USSR.

Biography

Ruhulla was born in Buzovna. In 1904, his father, Mullah Fatulla, died, and Ruhulla sold his father's household goods and went to Moscow to study with the money he had saved. However, due to financial difficulties, Ruhulla could not complete his education and returned to Baku.
After he played the role of Sidgi Bey very skillfully in Namık Kemal's play Vatan on 6 November 1910, he took the stage-name Sidgi and became known as Sidgi Ruhulla in the history of theatre.
Ruhulla died in Baku, and was buried in the Alley of Honor.

Career

In the early 20th century, male actors played female roles on the Azerbaijani stage. This lasted until the 20s and 30s of the 20th century. Ruhulla's first role was Telli in the comedy He Has a Name, Not Himself by Najaf bey Vazirov, directed by Huseyn Arablinski and staged on 21 December 1908, in Balaxanı drama association. Ruhulla skillfully performed his first performance as Rustam bey in the tragedy Fakhraddin's Misfortune in the hall of Seamen's Club in Baku. After the performance, Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev, Najaf bey Vazirov, Hasan bey Zardabi and others congratulated Ruhulla.
Ruhulla went on to play the roles of Musa in the tragedy of Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev The Unlucky Young Man, Tahmas in the tragedy of Nariman Narimanov Nadir-shah, Berezin in the work of Evgeny Chirikov The Jews, Qatran Bey in the comedy of Molière Le Médecin malgré lui, Nadir Shah in N. Narimanov's Nadir-shah tragedy, Fakhraddin in N. Vazirov's Fakhraddin's Misfortune tragedy.
From 1906 until 1920, Ruhulla performed in more than 250 cities and regions. He had visited Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Tabriz, Tehran, Rasht, Qazvin, Isfahan, Shiraz, Samarkand, Bukhara, Merv, Ashgabat, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Tula, Tbilisi, Yerevan, Krasnovodsk, Derbent, Makhachkala, Vladikavkaz, Grozny, Andijan, Ufa, Sarab, Ardabil, Anzali, Kazan, Batumi, Odesa, Rostov, Sukhumi, Yalta, Sevastopol, Simferopol, Tuapse, Sochi.
Ruhulla founded a professional theatre in Tabriz in 1909 with the help of local intellectuals. In 1919, the Department of Enlightenment of South Azerbaijan awarded Ruhulla a gold medal for his contributions to the establishment and development of theatrical culture in South Azerbaijan and Iran.

Filmography

In the [Name of God (film)|In the Name of God] Gilanian Girl Haji Gara Golden Bush Peasants
  • ''Fatali Khan''

Awards