Palace of Happiness
Palace of Happiness
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- Nizami Gəncəvi • 4 min walk
- İçəri Şəhər • 5 min walk
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HINA W
Islamabad, Pakistan7,348 contributions
Aug 2017 • Family
This Neo-Gothic building was built in 1912 by the Oil Baron Murtuza Mukhtarov for his beloved wife Lisa Khanum Tuganova. The building has a very romantic yet sad story.
Murtaza took his wife on an expensive trips to Europe. On one of these trips, while they were traveling through France, Lisa saw a beautiful French Gothic building and commented that how happy the people living in it must be. After returning to Baku Murataza secretly sent his team to France to purchase the architectural plans of the building. He hired the Polish architect Józef Plośko to execute this task and got a replica of his beloved's favorite building built within a record nine months. When the building was completed he took his wife out for a carriage ride and surprised her with the gift of this new home. The couple lived happily in this house for the next eight years until the Bolsheviks occupation of Azerbaijan. Russian officers entered the building on horsebacks to insult the owners. Murtaza could not tolerate this sacrilege to his home and shot all three of them and himself. His wife was arrested and put in the basement. The building was first converted into the Club of Liberated Turkic Women by the Soviets and later turned into the Shirvanshahs Museum. Later on it was converted into the Palace of Marriage Registrations. In 2001 the building was listed as real estate of historic and state importance and the street next to it was named after Murtuza Mukhtarov. Do visit this historical building when you visit Baku.
Murtaza took his wife on an expensive trips to Europe. On one of these trips, while they were traveling through France, Lisa saw a beautiful French Gothic building and commented that how happy the people living in it must be. After returning to Baku Murataza secretly sent his team to France to purchase the architectural plans of the building. He hired the Polish architect Józef Plośko to execute this task and got a replica of his beloved's favorite building built within a record nine months. When the building was completed he took his wife out for a carriage ride and surprised her with the gift of this new home. The couple lived happily in this house for the next eight years until the Bolsheviks occupation of Azerbaijan. Russian officers entered the building on horsebacks to insult the owners. Murtaza could not tolerate this sacrilege to his home and shot all three of them and himself. His wife was arrested and put in the basement. The building was first converted into the Club of Liberated Turkic Women by the Soviets and later turned into the Shirvanshahs Museum. Later on it was converted into the Palace of Marriage Registrations. In 2001 the building was listed as real estate of historic and state importance and the street next to it was named after Murtuza Mukhtarov. Do visit this historical building when you visit Baku.
Written 10 November 2017
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Jarek
Gdynia, Poland612 contributions
Sept 2019
Our tour guide told us nice stories about this place. This is piece of history and nowadays this is place when couple got married. So it's really Palace of Happiness.
Written 17 September 2019
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Mark G
Melbourne, Australia1,751 contributions
Apr 2018
The building was built by an Azerbaijani Oil Baron Murtuza Mukhtarov for his wife Liza-Khanum Tuganova. The designer was the Polish architect Józef Plośko who had also built several other historic buildings in Baku in the early 20th century.[ Very interesting facade.
Written 1 June 2018
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SEs
London, UK25,780 contributions
Sept 2018 • Friends
This is a big house of an oil baron before the Soviet took over Azerbaijan. This is built for his wife like the Indian Taj Mahal.A must.
Written 2 October 2018
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Swisshen
Perth, Australia2,344 contributions
Apr 2018 • Couples
Azerbaijani Oil Baron Murtuza Mukhtarov wife fell in love with this building when she visited Paris. She was so in awe with this building she mad the remark "How happy the tenants of this building must be." So he bought the blue prints and built an exact copy of the building for their new home. Sadly this happiness ended 12 years later when the Bolsheviks occupied Azerbaijan. Today it is called the Palace of Marriage Registrations.
Written 4 May 2018
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