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Abolqasem Lahouti

Iranian-Soviet poet and activist (1887–1957)

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image	Abolqasem Lahouti.png
pseudonym	Abolqasem Lahouti
birth_name	Abolqasem Elhami
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birth_place	Kermanshah, Iran
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death_place	Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
occupation	Poet and politician
nationality	Iranian
period	Modernism
genre	Poetry
movement	Socialist realism
spouse	Cecilia Banu
native_name	ابولقاسم لاهوتی
native_name_lang	fa

Abolqasem Mahout's statue (right) at Tajik Writers Union building, Dushanbe

Abulqosim Ahmadzoda Lohuti (; 12 October 1887 – 16 March 1957) was an Iranian-Soviet poet and political activist who was active in Iran during the Persian Constitutional Revolution and in Tajikistan in the early Soviet era.

Biography

Born on 12 October 1887 in Kermanshah to an Iranian cobbler and religious poet named Mirza Ahmad Elhami, and in his twenties his poems were published in several prestigious publications.

He soon entered politics and even received a medal from Sattar Khan for his efforts.

Initially, he went to clerical school, but then went to Bulgaria and wrote many poems on Islam. He then came back to Iran, and enlisted in the armed forces, and graduated as Captain in rank.

After being convicted by a court in Qom and sentenced to death, he fled to Turkey, but soon returned and joined forces with Sheikh Mohammad Khiabani in Tabriz. His forces defeated Mahmud Khan Puladeen's troops, but were soon disbanded by freshly dispatched forces. He then fled to Baku.

While living in Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, he became interested in Communism. After marrying a Russian student named Cecilia Bakaleyshchik, who would become a Persian-language poet and translator under the pen name Cecilia Banu (Sisil Banu), he was unable to initiate a coup d'etat against the central government of Iran, so he gave up and moved to USSR where he remained until his final days.

In 1925, he went to Dushanbe and joined the friends of Sadriddin Aini. His poetry was welcomed by audiences and gained him the position of the founder of Soviet Tajik poetry.

Lohuti is the author of the Anthem of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic lyrics. Other works of his include Kaveh the Blacksmith («Коваи оҳангар», 1947), Kremlin («Кремл», 1923), The Crown and the Flag («Тоҷ ва байрақ», 1935), among many others. His collection of poetry, in six volumes, was published between 1960 and 1963.

He died on 16 March 1957 at the age of 69 in Moscow.

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References

(2009-04-20). "LAHUTI, Abu'l-Qasem".
964-93406-6-1 (Vol. 1), {{ISBN. 964-93406-5-3 (Vol. 2).
Slezkine, Yuri. (2017). "The House of Government". [[Princeton University Press]].
Iraj Bashiri, ''Prominent Tajik figures of the twentieth century'', Dushanbe, 2002

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