In 2006, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation renovated gravestones and beautified the surroundings of the burial places of a number of outstanding Azerbaijani public figures buried in the Pantheon in Tbilisi, Georgia. The figures in question include Mirza Shafi Vazeh (1794-1852), a recognized poet, Mirza Fatali Akhundzadeh (Akhundov) (1812-1878), a writer, dramatist and philosopher, Hassan-bey Aghayev (1875-1920), a political and public figure, and Fatali-khan Khoyski (1875-1920), one of the founding fathers of the first Republic of Azerbaijan of 1918-1920.