Fətəli Xan Xoyski
Fətəli Xan İsgəndər oğlu Xoyski ( Russian Фатали Хан Хойский / Fatali Chan Choiski ; * December 7, 1875 in Schäki ; † June 19, 1920 in Tbilisi ) was an Azerbaijani politician and the first Prime Minister of his country.
The Fətəli Xoyski family originally comes from the Choy area in northern Iran and moved to Şəki after the Russo-Persian War, where his father Isgender Xoyski became a lieutenant general in the Russian army. Xoyski attended school in Gändschä and graduated from Moscow University in 1901 with a law degree . He then worked as a lawyer , judge and most recently as a public prosecutor in various places in the Caucasus .
In February 1907 he was elected as a member of the second Russian Duma , of which he was a member until it was dissolved by a decree of the tsar in June 1907. He then worked again as a lawyer in the judicial districts of Baku and Gəncə until the Tsar's abdication in February 1917 . Then he campaigned for the independence of Azerbaijan from Russia at the Musavat Congress that took place in St. Petersburg as a result of the uprising - he did not belong to any party . In December 1917 he was elected to the Transcaucasian Seym and belonged to a first government of the Transcaucasian Federation as Minister of Justice. The Transcaucasian Federation existed until May 1918.
During Azerbaijan’s first period of independence, from 1918 to 1920, he was the first Prime Minister of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic and led three cabinets from May 1918 to April 1919, after which he took over the Foreign Ministry. During his tenure as Prime Minister he promoted the establishment of the State University of Azerbaijan in 1919. During the Russian Civil War he rejected both the Soviets' invitation to fight Anton Denikin and his offer to form a coalition against the Bolsheviks. In April 1920, after the Bolshevik- led Soviet Union occupied Azerbaijan, he fled to Georgia , which was still independent. In Tbilisi he was murdered in 1920 by the secret Armenian Nemesis commando in revenge for his role in the Armenian pogrom in Baku in 1918 . Through Enver Pascha , this is also personally related to the genocide of the Armenians in Turkey . But it is also seen as a reaction to the March 1918 events in Azerbaijan six months earlier, in which Armenian nationalists allied with the Bolsheviks killed many Azerbaijani civilians. He was killed by Aram Jerkanjan. Xoyski was buried in the Azerbaijani cemetery near Tbilisi.
Web links
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Xoyski, Fətəli Xan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Xoyski, Fətəli Xan İsgəndər oğlu (full name); Choiski, Fatali Chan; Хойский, Фатали Хан (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Azerbaijani politician and first prime minister of his country |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 7, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schäki |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1920 |
| Place of death | Tbilisi |