[2][3] In 1939, the play was translated into Russian by the young playwright Leonid Zorin, in 1940 by Vladimir Gurvich, and in 1941 by Adelina Adalis.

[4] After the work was published in Moscow, the famous writers and theatre experts Alexander Fadeyev, R. Wart, O. Litovsky, Ilya Selvinsky, Adelina Adalis, Rachel Miller-Budnitskaya and others wrote articles where they analysed the play "Vagif".

A dramatic chronicle of the 18th century in 3 acts, 11 scenes" was published in Moscow, being translated from Azerbaijani by Adelina Adalis.

[6] Jafarov wrote:[6] The performance caused the warmest and most enthusiastic responses in the republican and central press.On 24 January 1940, the play "Vagif" was staged in the Baku Russian Drama Theatre[5] by the director Ismail Hidayatzada.

The artist was Gusak, the composer was Nina Karnitskaya; The role of Vagif was performed by Shulgin, Eldar by Baykov, Khuraman by Babichev, Vidadi by Zharikov.