Ali Agha Shikhlinski

AliAgha IsmailAgha oglu Shikhlinski was lieutenantgeneral of the Russian imperial army and Deputy Minister of Defense and General of the Artillery of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

AliAgha Shikhlinski was born on April, 23, in the village of Kazakhly of Kazakh uyezd. He descended from an old noble family first mention which relates in 1537. His mother Shah Yemen Khanum was a grandchild of a famous poet Molla Vali Vidadi. In August 1876 he entered Tiflis military school and graduated in 1883. He then finished Mikhaylovsky Artillery School in Saint Petersburg in 1886, received the rank of podporuchik and was assigned to 39th artillery brigade, located in Alexandropol. In the course of military service he was promoted to poruchik, then shtabskapitan and appointed as commander of the training team. In 1900, Captain Shikhlinski was transferred to Transbaikal artillery battalion. He took part in China Relief Expedition of the Russian army.

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