It was built in 1901 sponsored by the Azeri oil baron and philanthropist Zeynalabdin Taghiyev.
•
Taghiyev also received congratulatory messages from scholars of Saint Petersburg, Kazan, Crimea, and Central Asia.
Born in Lankaran to a wealthy noble family (from her maternal side, she was the niece of general Samad bey Mehmandarov), Talyshinskaya first studied at Maryam Bayramalibeyova's Uns School for Girls and moved to Baku at the age of nine to attend the Azerbaijani Girls Seminary.
Muslim | Russian Empire | Russian language | high school | Russian Academy of Sciences | Harvard Business School | London School of Economics | Harvard Medical School | secondary school | Harvard Law School | Eastman School of Music | Gilmore Girls | Russian Orthodox Church | Juilliard School | Public school (government funded) | High School Musical | Gymnasium (school) | Yale Law School | Rugby School | school district | high school football | Aligarh Muslim University | public school | school | New York University School of Law | Westminster School | Tisch School of the Arts | Charterhouse School | Harrow School | University-preparatory school |