Garden named Khagani

Nowadays, Molokan (Lettuce) garden is called so. The given garden located at the intersection of the streets Gogol, U. Hacibeyov and R. Rza, the given garden was called Molokan not casually. In the 19th century this garden was surrounded by caravanserais, at which lettuces, bringing goods from different districts, often put up. The nearest streets, lanes, yards were dotted with cooper’s shops. In the seventies, XIX century the authorities decided to lay out a garden in this place, true, groundwater and clay soil hampered the growth of landed trees.
With time magnificent buildings were erected around Molokan garden: the oil magnate Shibaev’s brilliant private residence, in architectural respect original house of the "Tea" king of Russia Visotsky, the Mikado Theatre (theatre named Samed Vurgun), built by Haji Ashum’s son Ali Heydarov after trips to China and Japan and, at last, Haji Alekber Dadashov’s profitable houses. These buildings changed the appearance of the garden and its vicinities.
After establishment of the Soviet authority Molokan garden was renamed into the garden “9th January”, and then it was named after Hashim Aliyev. Now it is named Khagani.
During the post-war period the garden was reconstructed twice. The pool in a curvilinear form with the sculptural group “Three graces” began to form the basis of the architectural-landscape composition.
Large blocks of natural stone serve as a pedestal for sculptures. Though the garden is very small in its size (approximately 0,8 h?), it is cozy enough and a favorite rest-place for most of Baku citizens.