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On November 25, 1919, N.M.Mikhaylov was resumed his direct duties in the District
Court of Ganja. His untimely death from a stray bullet at home during the Ganja
Revolt in late May 1920 was tragic indeed.
8W.W.Goodwill, the Chairman of Magistrates’ Council, a Full (Real) Councilor
of the State, a member of the Ad Hoc Investigation Commission during Septem-
ber 1 to October 27, 1918, discharged from the AHIC due to being appointed the
legal adviser at the Ministry of Finance. During the first years of the Soviet rule
W.W.Goodwill was employed by the judicial authorities of the Soviet Socialist Re-
public of Azerbaijan. Further destiny unknown.
9Khoyski Fatali-khan Iskandar-khan oghlu (1875-1920), an outstanding
statesman and public figure. His father, General-Lieutenant Iskandar-khan Khoyski,
originally from the town of Khoy in South Azerbaijan, was one of descendants of
Jafargulu-khan, the Khan (Duke) of Sheki. Graduate of classical school in Ganja (Ye-
lizavetpol) and the School of Law at Moscow University with the first degree diploma
(class of 1897), F.Khoyski was serving in District Courts of Ganja and Kutaisi. As assis-
tant Chairman of the Magistrate’s Court in Zugdidi, he got the rank of Titular Coun-
cilor. The Head of Municipal Precinct No.3 (1903) and Deputy Public Prosecutor at
the District Court of Yekaterinodar, he got the rank of Collegiate Assessor in 1904.
On February 20, 1907, Khoyski was elected to the 2nd State Duma (Russia’s Legisla-
tion) from Yelizavetpol Province. Upon dissolution of the 2nd Duma, he returned to
Ganja and was admitted to the Jury of the Yelizavetpol Court, the Supreme Judicial
Court of Tiflis. In 1913, F.Khoyski moved to Baku to continue his career as a juriman
at the District Court of Baku. After the February Revolution in 1917, he was elected
the Chairman of the Baku City Council (Duma). In February 1918, he was elected to
the Trans-Caucasian Seim to hold the position of the Minister of Public Education of
the Federal Republic of Transcaucasia as of April 22, 1918. He was a member of the
Azerbaijani National Council that passed the Act on Independence of Azerbaijan on
May 27, 1918, so F.Khoyski was elected the head of the first government of Azerbai-
jan to hold the posts of the Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs in the first
Cabinet of Ministers, and the Prime Minister and Minister of Justice in the second
Cabinet. Following decision of the Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan estab-
lished on December 7, 1918, Khoyski formed the third government whereby he was
holding two positions, i.e. the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Upon the Government’s resignation on February 25, 1919, he continued perfor-
ming his duties until the forth government chaired by N.Youssifbeyli was formed on
April 14, 1919. In the new Government, F.Khoyski was involved in addressing various
political, economic and financial issues and was actively involved in preparation and
holding the Caucasian Conference on the settlement of border disputes among the
region’s states. Since December 22, 1919 to April 28, 1920, F.Khoyski was the Minis-
ter of Foreign Affairs in the fifth Cabinet of Ministers led by N.Youssifbeyli. Upon the
downfall of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan, F.Khoyski secretly left for Tiflis
(Tbilisi) where on June 19, 1920, he was assassinated by an Armenian terrorist killer.
10Alibeyov Aliabbas-bey Hajji Niftaly oghlu (1870-1937), a recognized
figure in Guba in the 1910-1930’s, born to a noble family, graduate of the 2-year
municipal school in Guba, a low-ranking judiciary officer in Guba during the Czar
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