Shamsi Asadullayev

Shamsi Asadullayev
Born	1840 (1840) Baku, Azerbaijan
Died	1913 (1914) (aged 73) Yalta, Russia
Children	Mirza Asadullayev, Ali Asadullayev, Sara Asadullayeva, Khadija Asadullayeva, Aghabaji Asadullayeva[1]

Shamsi Asadullayev (

Asadullayev was born in Amirjan village of Baku in 1840. At his early ages, he helped his father in farming business. In the mid 19th century, when the oil business started booming, vast territories around Amirjan and Surakhani, on which farmers worked, were bought by Russian businessmen Vasily Kokorev and Peter Gubonin with the purpose of building oil refineries. Remaining with no arable land, many farmers were forced to find work in the oil businesses. Shamsi Asadullayev started working at the refinery. In 1860, he was promoted to Deputy Director to Kokorev. Some time later, he became the subcontractor for oil and salt producers. In 1875, after earning sizable income, he opened a kerosene plant. In 1890, Asadullayev co-founded an oil company with several other producers. In 1891, he purchased three barges to export oil out of Baku to Russia via Caspian Sea.^[3] Asadullayev reportedly owned an electricity substation as well.^[4]

Later years

In early 1890s, he purchased oil rich areas in the outskirts of Baku. In 1895, there was an

Asadullayev became an independent oilman, the owner of his own company in 1893. By 1910, Asadullayev had 37 oil wells, of which 17 produced oil uninterruptedly and in ever-increasing volumes. After the appearance of the Nobel Zoroaster in the Caspian Sea - the first oil tanker in the world - Asadullayev launches three oil tankers - the so-called three “A”: Asia, Africa, America.^{[citation needed]}

Asadullayev was married to an Azerbaijani wife. The couple had five children: Mirza, Ali, Sara, Khadija and Aghabaji. When he married a Russian woman, his children broke off the relationship with their father and he had to move to Moscow in 1903. His Russian wife Marie Goudime-Levkovitch (Moscow, january 26th 1878- ) was the daughter of member of Duma, mother named Prascovie Nicolaieff and father Pierre Lebedeff, having close ties to the Russian tsar.^[3]

After Bolshevik takeover of Azerbaijan, Asadullayev fled the country.^[5]

He died from

In 1896, a three-story mansion was built by architect Ivan Edel at the request of Asadullayev at the corner of streets Prachechnaya 9, Gymnasia 183 and Karantinnaya 84 in Baku.

House in Moscow

Asadullayev bought two neighboring possessions in the area of Tatarskaya Sloboda, under No. 333 (Maly Tatarsky Pereulok, house 6) and No. 334 (ibid, house 8); the first section was intended for the construction of a large store (due to the death of Asadullayev, the project was not implemented), and on the land of the second ownership he decided to build a large building for the school.

A four-storey house, which became the cultural center of

In 2003, this building was returned to the Tatar national-cultural autonomy of Moscow.[7]

Patronage

Shamsi Asadullayev is known as a

In 1908-1912, mining in the fields of Asadullayev ranged from 6 to 8 million pounds per annum (architectural monuments of Baku).[8]

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