Molla Panah Vagif -was an 18th-century Azerbaijani poet, the founder of the realism genre in the Azerbaijani poetry and also a prominent statesman and diplomat, vizier - the minister of foreign affairs in the Karabakh khanate. Vagif's works herald a new era in Azeri poetry. This was the main characteristic that distinguished Vagif from his predecessors and made him the founder of the realism genre in Azeri poetry.