225th Anniversary of Abbasgulu Bakikhanov

Abbasgulu agha Bakikhanov (21 June 1794, Amirjan – 31 May 1847, Wadi Fatima, near Jeddah) was an Azerbaijani writer, historian, journalist, linguist, poet and philosopher.

He was son of the third khan of Baku Mirza Muhammad Khan II. He later served as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army and participated in the Russo-Persian War of 1826–1828. He later retired and settled in Quba, but traveled extensively within Russia, meeting important literary figures as Alexander Pushkin.

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