Who is Ahmet Cevad, Poet of the Black Sea, Where and How Old Did He Die?

Ahmet Javad (born May 5, 1892, Seyfali village, Shamkir district — died October 13, 1937), Azerbaijani poet. Ahmed Cevad wrote the lyrics of the Azerbaijani National Anthem and the poem “The Black Sea Was Cracked” during the Caucasian Islamic Army. As a result of Stalin's purge movement, which received wide repercussions in the society under the name of the Great Purge, he was accused of being a "counter-revolutionary" and sentenced to death, and was executed in 1937.

Ahmed Cevad is also known as the first person to translate Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli's The Man with the Tiger Skin from Georgian to Azerbaijani. This translation was only published in 1978 with the name Pələng dərisi gemış pəhləvan in the Azeri alphabet based on Cyrillic. This translation, named pələng dərisi gemış pəhləvan, was translated into Turkish by Bilal Dindar and Zeynelabidin Makas with minor changes and was published in 1991 under the name Kaplan Skin Knight.

works

• Selected works. – B.: “East-West”,
• Selected works: at 2 C. – B.: Azerneşr, 1992. – C.Iş. ; C.II.
• You don't cry, I cry.
• Right shouting voice / tərt. and the preface belongs to A. Aliyeva.
• Black Sea Fluttered: (Poetry)
• newspaper. – 1992.
• Don't Come Basmalah: Poems / Azerbaijan. – 1994.