Fatali Khan Khoyski

Fatali Khan Isgender oglu Khoyski ( _az. Fətəli-xan İsgəndər oğlu Xoyski) (December 1875 - September 1920) was an attorney, a member of the Second State Duma of the Russian Empire, and, later, the first Prime Minister of the independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

Fatali Khan was born on December 7, 1875 in Shaki to the noble family of Isgender Khoyski, a lieutenant-general in the Russian Army. The distinguished ancestry of the Khoyski family goes back to the khans of Khoy, which also became the root for this family name. [ [http://azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/61_folder/61_articles/61_khoyski.html Fuad Akhundov, "Fatali Khoyski - Prime Minister (1875-1920), "Azerbaijan International", vol. 6.1, Spring 1998] .]

After receiving his school education at Ganja gymnasium, Fatali Khan studied at the Law Faculty of the Moscow University, from which he graduated in 1901.

Fatali-khan Khoyski was assassinated in Tbilisi in September 1920. His burial ceremony was done by Iranian consulate in Tbilisi. ["Storm over the Caucas : A glance at the Iranian regional relations with the republics of Azerbiajan, Armenia and Georgia in the first period of independence 1917-1921" ( In Persian), Kaveh Bayat, The center for documents and diplomatic history, Tehran 2001, First ed., ISBN 964-361-065-9, p. 410]

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