Soaking Up The Samad Vurgun House Museum In Baku

The Soviets were big on turning your house into a museum, especially if you were famous and a loyal party member. Samad Vurgun was a poet, dramatist, public figure, academician. And a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Congratulations, comrade, your house is now a museum.

Wall of fame. If someone paints your portrait, you hang it up. More paintings, more hangings.

Office, where the master wrote. And listened to music, maybe read, nibbled a sandwich, solved some sudoku. A case holding his hunting gear. And dombra instrument. Look, another portrait, appropriately placed near similar props.

Grand, green living room.

Various identification cards for The Party. Hey, the country was a Union shop. Pink bedroom, perhaps letting the wife win the decorating battle.

Death mask, a thing back in the communist day. Vurgun died in 1956.