Molla Vali Vidadi

He spent most of his life in his native town of Shamkir (then called Shamkhor) where he taught at a religious school.

According to some sources, Vidadi spent some years in Tiflis, Georgia, where he served as a court poet for King Erekle II.

Upon the death of the king's son Levan in 1781, Vidadi wrote an elegy dedicated to the deceased.

His court service did not last long, possibly due to his open criticism of the ruling class.

[1] Vidadi's simple and realistic (sometimes involving elements of mysticism) literary style resembled the traditional Azeri ashik genre.