Nikolai Bayev, an architect and civil engineer of Armenian descent, designed the sketch for the theater at Nizami Street 95 in Baku, first called the Mailov Theatre. The Mailov brothers commissioned it, and the article also says Taghiyev funded it. Work was done in three shifts with about 200 workers and took less than ten months. Costs exceeded 250,000 rubles.
It opened on February 28, 1911, with Antonina Nezhdanova as the first performer. The article names no style and gives no seating capacity, facade or interior details. The housewarming-ball story it tells is marked as an urban legend with a citation-needed tag.
The theater burned in 1985, a fire the article calls mysterious, and restoration was finished in 1987. The infobox gives 1911 as the start of activity, while the text says the building was finished in under ten months without giving a start date.
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