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Note from Mahintaj Ízadí to Olga Mekhti
(from personal email)
This is a picture of Bahá'ís gathered to welcome Siyyid Mihdíy-i-Gulpáygání, a renowned Bahá'í scholar, who had come to help with the consolidation of the Bahá'í community in Moscow. I don't know everyone in the picture, but I know some of them. I have taken the list that was in the picture caption, but I have also corrected the transliteration of the Persian names into Latin alphabet (with the help of my son) according to the instructions of Shoghi Effendi:
- Seated (left to right): Mahmúd Ramzi, Asadu’lláh Ízadí, unidentified, Bahíyyih Ízadí, Siyyid Mihdíy-i-Gulpáygání, Kayúmarth Ízadí (child sitting on the floor), Dhabíhu’lláh Námdár, ‘Abdu'l-Vahháb (from Ishqábád), Kázim Kázimzádih.
- Standing (left to right): unidentified, unidentified, Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Durrí, Habíbu’lláh Durrí, Rúhá ‘Atá’í, ‘Atá’u’lláh ‘Atá’í, Talí’ih Kázimzádih, ‘Alí Akbar Furútan (future Hand of the Cause of God).
- The child sitting on the floor, Kayúmarth Ízadí (normally spelled as Kiumars Izadi), is my future husband, who was born in Íshqábád in 1920, lived in Moscow as a child. Later from Iran, we pioneered together to Finland. He passed away in 2010.
Ishqabad, Russia, 1926. Standing, back row, left to right:
Lutfu'llah Rahimzadih, Dr Mu'in Ahmadzadih, Mrs Durri, Habibu'llah Durri, Ruha Khanum 'Ata’i, 'Ata'u'llah 'Ata'i, Mrs Kadzadih, 'Ali Akbar Furutan
Centre/front row:
Mahmud Ramzi, 'Asadu'llah Izadi, Siyyid Mihdi Gulpaygani, Dhabih'u'llah Namdar, 'Abdu'l-Vahhab ‘Ibadi, Kadim Kadimzadih
Seated child: Kewmars Izadi
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