Fatali Khan Khoyski §

Born in Nukha (Sheki) in 1875 to a princely family of Persian-Azerbaijani descent rooted in the Khoy region; trained in law at Moscow University and served as a Duma deputy from Elisavetpol governorate in the Second Russian Duma (1907). Joined the Transcaucasian Commissariat in 1917 and became the first Prime Minister of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on 28 May 1918, leading the cabinet that with the Ottoman Army of Islam under Nuri Pasha re-took Baku in September 1918, an occupation accompanied by the September 1918 massacres of the city's Armenians. Resigned the premiership in March 1919 after several cabinet reshuffles but remained Foreign Minister until April 1920; fled the Sovietisation to Tiflis. Shot dead on 19 June 1920 in Erivan Square in central Tiflis by ARF operatives Aram Yerkanian and Misak Kirakosian as the second Operation Nemesis assassination, in retribution for the September 1918 Baku events.