Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski

Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski
Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski
	Life-Guards Horse Regiment, 2nd cavalry corps, Guard Cavalry Corps
Battles/wars	Russo-Japanese War; World War I;
Awards	Order of St. George of 4th degree, Order of St. George of 3rd degree

Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski, or Nakhichevansky,

H. I. M. Retinue

.

Military career

He was born on July 28, 1863, in

Erivan Khanate

(abolished in 1828).

In 1874, Huseyn Nakhchivanski was admitted to the

cornet and was assigned to the elite Leib Guard Horse Regiment. Nakhchivanski served there for twenty years and ascended positions from cornet to Colonel

of the Leib Guard.

When the

Order of Saint George for launching a successful cavalry onslaught to save an encircled Russian infantry

unit. He was also awarded the Golden Saint George sword.

Khan Nakhchivanski was the commander of the 44th Nizhegorodski

Brusilov Offensive

.

The Russian Revolution

When in the winter of 1917 the

Nicholas II

the use of his corps for suppression of the revolt, but Nicholas II never received this telegram.

After the

monarchist. After the October Revolution and the assassination of the head of Petrograd Cheka, Moisei Uritsky, Nakhchivanski together with some other prominent citizens of Petrograd was taken hostage by the Bolsheviks. He was kept in the same prison with Grand Dukes Paul Alexandrovich, Nicholas Mikhailovich, George Mikhailovich and Dmitry Konstantinovich. Also in the same prison was kept Prince Gabriel Constantinovich, who used to serve under the command of Khan Nakhchivanski and who later managed to escape, and who mentioned in his memoir that he met Khan Nakhchivanski during the walks in the prison yard.^[1]

The Grand Dukes were executed in the Peter and Paul Fortress in January 1919. It is presumed by a number of historians that Khan Nakhchivanski was executed together with the Grand Dukes.^[2] However, the exact circumstances of Khan Nakhchivanski's death and his burial place still remain unknown.

Family

Ca. 1890, Nakhchivanski married Sophia Taube (née Gerbel; 1864,

translator Nikolai Gerbel. Together they had three children: Nicholas (who died in 1912), Tatiana and Georges. After the October Revolution, the Nakhchivanskis emigrated. Their descendants lived (and some continue to live) in France, Lebanon, Egypt, and the United States

.