Ali Qulu Mirza Qajar

Aligulu Mirza Bahman Mirza oglu was born in 1854 in the city of Shusha. After graduating from the Tbilisi Corps, he served in the 51st Chernigov Dragon Regiment in Oryol, and in 1903 he was transferred to the 52nd Nezhinsky Regiment in Yelets. He was promoted from lieutenant to major.

When the war broke out, his wife (Sarah) asked from him, to retire because of a serious heart condition and not to go to war. However, he rejected this proposal and went to war.[2]

This military campaign was his last. In 1905, during the defense of Port Arthur, he was seriously wounded. He died in a hospital in the city of Chita, from where his body was taken to the Caucasus.[3] On this occasion, the newspaper wrote "Tarjuman on February 18, 1905:

Director of the Red Cross Society, Her Highness Empress Maria Feodorovna found it necessary to deliver the body of Lieutenant Colonel Prince Ali Qulu Mirza Qajar at the expense of the Red Cross to the Caucasus's Yevlakh station.[4]

Ali Qulu Mirza was buried next to his father Bahman Mirza Qajar in the mausoleum at the Imamzadeh Mausoleum in the city of Barda.

List of awards:[5]

• - 4th Class Order of Saint Anne (1886)
• Medal "In memory of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878"
• - 3rd Class Order of Saint Stanislaus
• - 2nd Class Order of Saint Stanislaus
• - 3rd Class Order of Saint Anne
• - 4th Class Order of Saint Vladimir
• - Order of Noble Bukhara
• - Order of the Lion and the Sun

Kuchek Barda Khanom, mother of Ali Qulu Mirza Qajar.

He was a member of the Qajar dynasty. He was born into the family of Bahman Mirza Qajar and Küchük Barda Khanım from the Qajar dynasty and received his first education from the family.

• Father - Bahman Mirza Qajar (prince of Qajar dynasty).
• Mother - Küchük Barda Khanım
• Wife - Sarah (Sittara) Begüm (Ismailova) daughter of the merchant Aga-Ali Alesker Ismailov. Received a European education. She was fluent Azerbaijani, French, Persian and Russian.[6] The couple had three sons and one daughter. In 1906, Sittara brought her children, Shamsi and Uveis and her nephew Tofik, to St. Petersburg for study.
• Son - Shamsaddin Mirza Qajar (23 July 1895 - 1979) had graduated from the Imperial School of Law in 1917. After returning from Petrograd, he remained to live and work in Tbilisi, where he died at the age of 85 in 1979.[2] In 1951, he wrote his memoirs about his father "He will return", which were published in 1990 in the monthly literary and art magazine "Literary Azerbaijan".[5]
  • Granddaughter - Shamsaddin Mirza had only one child - Izzet Khanum (1924-?). She had lived in Tbilisi and worked as a doctor.[6]
• Son - Sultan Uveis Mirza Qajar (22 December 1896, Tbilisi - 14 April 1931, Baku[7]) had transferred from the Imperial School of Law to the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute. Later he had worked in Baku as a radio engineer in the editorial office of the Kommunist newspaper. Died of tuberculosis in 1931.[6]
  • Grandson - Chingiz Qajar (b. 1929, Baku - d. 12 June 2021, Baku), Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Honored Worker of Science of the Azerbaijan SSR.
• Son - Murad Mirza Qajar (died in childhood)[6]
• Daughter - Izzet Khanum (died in childhood)[6]

The wife and children of Ali Qulu Mirza Qajar were Muslims.[5] Despite the knowledge of French and Russian, he spoke his native Azerbaijani language in the family.[8]

• Amir Kazim Mirza Qajar