Mehdigulu Khan Vafa

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Mehdigulu Khan Vafa
Elisabethpol Governorate, Caucasus Viceroyalty
Died8 September 1900 (1900-09-09) (aged 45)
Tbilisi, Tiflis Governorate, Caucasus Viceroyalty
Wars and battlesRusso-Turkish War (1877–1878)
Noble familyUtsmiev (paternally)
Javanshir clan (maternally)
FatherKhasay Khan Utsmiyev
MotherKhurshidbanu Natavan

Mehdigulu Khan Utsmiyev (

Tiflis) was a lyrical poet of Azerbaijan of Kumyk and Javanshir descent, a lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Russian Army. He authored poetry under pseudonym Vafa (Persian: وفا, lit.
 'Loyal').

Life

Mehdigulu was born in 1855 in

Mehdigulu Khan, last khan of Karabakh Khanate
.

In 1859,

Alexandre Dumas wrote about him: "a five- or six-year-old boy probably instinctively holding a kinjal... This was a really sharp dagger, which a French mother would never give to her child."[2]

Military career

Utsmiev's Palace in Shusha

He enrolled in the military in 1871 and received a silver medal the same year "For greeting the Sovereign Emperor in Tiflis in 1871". He was later to promoted to Praporshchik on 9 November 1871. By 1876 he continued to the cavalry branch, assigned to a squadron. In 1877, he was put under the commander of Caucasus Military District for special assignments.

Joining

debouches near Hainkyoi—and, despite considerable resistance, captured Uflani, Maglizh and Kazanlak; on July 18 he participated attack on Shipka, which was evacuated by the Turks the following day. He returned to the Caucasus after Treaty of Berlin and received awards for his bravery and participation.[3]

He was transferred to the Life Guards Cossack Regiment of His Majesty with the rank of

Rittmeister of the army cavalry and as adjutant to the commander of Caucasus Military District. Later in 1895, he received his highest rank of lieutenant colonel
. He served as a staff officer from 1897 to 1900 of Caucasus Military District.

According to his service record, Utsmiev owned a family estate consisting of two houses in the city of Shusha, two caravanserais near

Tiflis and was buried in Aghdam.[3]

Family

Mehdigulu Khan (left) with his mother Khurshidbanu Natavan and sister Khanbike

He married his 2nd cousin Saltanatbeyim Javanshir (daughter of Karim agha Javanshir (1826-1907), a grandson of Ibrahim Khalil Khan) in 1871 and had a son and 3 daughters:[3]

  1. Agha Bike (August 1873 - 1942) — married Akbar Mirza Qajar (grandson of
    Bahman Mirza
    via Reza Qoli Mirza)
    1. Reza Qoli Mirza
    2. Rukn al-Din Mirza
    3. Dilshad Qajar — Maid of Honour to Empress Maria Alexandrovna, married to Isgandar bey Rustambayov
    4. Saray Melik
  2. Bilgeyisbike (July 1874 - )
  3. Azizabike (b. January 1876)
  4. Khasay Utsmiev (28 August 1881 - 6 October 1925) — married Sariyya Rustambayova (his own niece Dilshad's daughter) and later Sofia Yastremskoy
    1. Mehdi Utsmiev (6 February 1906, Shusha - 17 January 1993, Moscow)
    2. Said Utsmiev (6 January 1907, Tbilisi - 15 August 1998)
    3. Leyla Utsmieva (19 September 1910 - 8 June 1996, Baku)

Awards and decorations[3]

References

  1. ^ Azerbaijani generals

    Maj-Gen. Khasay Khan Usmiyev (1808–1866), husband of famous Karabakh poet Natavan. Their son, Mehdiqulu, born in 1855 in Shusha, became a Lt-Colonel in the Russian Army.
  2. ^ Dumas, Alexandre (1962). Adventures in the Caucasus. Peter Owen. p. 142.
  3. ^ a b c d Ismayilov, Eldar. "Князи Уцмиевы в Азербайджане" [Utsmiyev Princes in Azerbaijan]. News of the Azerbaijan Historical and Genealogical Society (in Azerbaijani) (6): 29–35.

External links

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