Azim Azimzade was the country's first major satirical illustrator, working in the early twentieth century for the Tbilisi-Baku magazine Molla Nasreddin — a radical, anti-clerical, anti-feudal weekly that was hugely influential across Turkic-speaking Central Asia and the Middle East. The small museum in his former apartment near Fountain Square preserves his studio and a couple of hundred of his drawings.
The work is sharply observed and surprisingly modern: drunken merchants, corrupt mullahs, suffering peasant women. Even without Azerbaijani, the cartoons read clearly. It is a peculiar, intimate museum, and one of the more interesting small collections in central Baku.