Fatali Khan Khoyski (7 December 1875-19 June 1920) was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic from 26 December 1918 to 14 March 1919, succeeding Alimardam Topchubashev and preceding Mammad Yusif Jafarov.
Biography[]
Fatali Khan Khoyski was born on 7 December 1874 in Shaki, Elisabethpol Governorate, Russian Empire, and he was descended from the Khans of Khol. He served as a lawyer before being elected as a deputy to the Duma from Elisabethpol, and he criticized Russian colonization in the Caucasus and Azerbaijan. On 26 December 1918 he became Minister of Foreign Affairs of the newly-independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the first Muslim republic in history. He de-Russified the naming of cities in Azerbaijan, with Elisabethpol becoming Ganja and Karyagino county becoming Jabrayil. Khoyski and his family moved to Tiflis in the Democratic Republic of Georgia before the 28 April 1920 fall of Baku to the Soviet Union, and on 19 June 1920 Khoyski was assassinated by Aram Yerganian of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation due to rumors that he had taken part in the September Days massacre of Armenians in Baku, and he was buried at the Persian consulate.