Abdulla agha Bakikhanov
Abdulla agha Bakikhanov | |
|---|---|
Abdulla ağa Bakıxanov | |
| Born | June 21, 1824 |
| Died | July 20, 1879 (aged 55) |
| Occupation | Military |
| Father | Mirza Muhammad Khan II |
| Family | Bakikhanovs |
Abdulla agha Bakikhanov[a] (Azerbaijani: Abdulla ağa Bakıxanov) was an Azerbaijani major general in the Imperial Russian Army, and the half-brother of the Azerbaijani writer and educator Abbasgulu Bakikhanov.
Life
[edit]Abdulla agha was born in 1824 to Mirza Muhammad Khan II of Baku and his second wife Kheyr-un Nisa Khanum.[2][3] He was in the cavalry division of the Caucasian army and became an officer in 1843. In 1859 he was promoted to colonel, and on January 1, 1871 to major general. He participated in campaigns in the Caucasian War and Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). In the 1850s-1870s he lived in the city of Quba in his hereditary possessions and was a large landowners in the Quba district. He helped Hasan bey Zardabi distribute the newspaper Akinchi, the first newspaper in the Azerbaijani language.[4]
Bakikhanov was in the Caucasian army until May 1876. On July 20, 1879 he died in Tiflis.[5][6]
Awards
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- 3rd Class Order of Saint Anne.[7]
- 2nd Class Order of Saint Stanislaus with swords for muslims set.[7]- - 2nd Class Order of Saint Anne.[7]
- 4th Class Order of Saint Vladimir with swords for muslims set.[7]
Notes
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Storey, Charles Ambrose (1970). Persian Literature: v.1: A Bio-bibliographical Survey. Luzac Publishing Ltd. p. 428. ISBN 978-0718901417.
- ^ Acts collected by the Caucasian Archaeological Commission: [In 12 vols.] / Archive of Chief Executive viceroy of the Caucasus; Under the Society. Ed. A. D. Berger. – Tbilisi: Typ. Ch. Ex. Viceroy Cau., 1866–1904. T. 6: Part 2: [1816–1827] / Ed. A. D. Berger. – 1875. – 941 p. – pp. 907–908
- ^ Berge, Adolt (1875). Кавказ и Закавказье за время управления генерал от инфантерии Алексея Петровича Ермолова, 1816-1827 [The Caucasus and Transcaucasia during the reign of Infantry General Alexei Petrovich Ermolov, 1816-1827]. Акты, собранные Кавказской археографической комиссией [Acts collected by the Caucasian Archaeographic Commission] (in Russian). Vol. VI-2. Tiflis. p. 907.
((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Геюшева, З. Б. Современники о Г. Зардаби. Baku: Elm. p. 225.
- ^ Волков, С. В. (2009). енералитет Российской империи. Энциклопедический словарь генералов и адмиралов от Петра I до Николая II. Vol. 1. Центрполиграф. p. 98.
- ^ Гогитидзе, Мамука Гогитидзе (2007). Военная элита Кавказа. Генералы и адмириалы из Грузии. Tiflis: Научно-исследовательский центр истории грузинско-кавказских отношении. p. 71.
- ^ a b c d Список генералам по старшинству 1871, p. 881.
Sources
[edit]- Список генералам по старшинству. Saint Petersburg: Ministry of War of the Russian Empire. 1871.
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