Abdulla agha was born in 1824 to Mirza Muhammad Khan II of Baku and his second wife Kheyr-un Nisa Khanum.[2][3] He was in the cavalry division of the Caucasian army and became an officer in 1843. In 1859 he was promoted to colonel, and on January 1, 1871 to major general. He participated in campaigns in the Caucasian War and Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). In the 1850s-1870s he lived in the city of Quba in his hereditary possessions and was a large landowners in the Quba district. He helped Hasan bey Zardabi distribute the newspaper Akinchi, the first newspaper in the Azerbaijani language.[4]
Bakikhanov was in the Caucasian army until May 1876. On July 20, 1879 he died in Tiflis.[5][6]
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^Геюшева, З. Б. Современники о Г. Зардаби. Baku: Elm. p. 225.
^Волков, С. В. (2009). енералитет Российской империи. Энциклопедический словарь генералов и адмиралов от Петра I до Николая II. Vol. 1. Центрполиграф. p. 98.
^Гогитидзе, Мамука Гогитидзе (2007). Военная элита Кавказа. Генералы и адмириалы из Грузии. Tiflis: Научно-исследовательский центр истории грузинско-кавказских отношении. p. 71.
