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Tekin Fortress. Graduate of the First Boys’ Classical School in Tiflis (class of 1901).
Off-on studies continued in 1901-1908 at the Physics & Mathematics School and
the School of Law, Novorossiysk University. Career started with the employment in
judiciary bodies at various places all over the South Caucasus, Baku included. Tekin-
ski was well received in the Azerbaijani elite. In September 1918, while holding the
position of an attorney at law, he was introduced to the Ad Hoc Investigation Com-
mission. As an AHIC member, he was operating in the team investigating the events
of March 1918 in Baku and its environs, as well as in Shemakha. In the absence of
A.Khasmammadov, Tekinski was performing the duties of the Chairman of AHIC.
Since January 29 until October 10, 1919 he served as the diplomatic representative
of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan in Armenia, whereas since October 11,
1919 until April 28, 1920 he was holding the post of Deputy Minister for Foreign
Affairs. Upon Azerbaijan’s takeover by the Soviets, Tekinski was employed by the
People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan. As
of 1922, he joined the Board of Advocates at the People’s Commissariat of Justice.
Dismissed from the Board in January 1926, he used to work as a lawyer in various
Soviet public offices. On November 18, 1937, M.Tekiski was arrested by the state
security agencies at the Azerbaijani NKVD charged with membership in a counter-
revolutionary nationalist insurgent terrorist organization. He pleaded not guilty.
Nonetheless, on March 15, 1938, Tekiski was sentenced to capital punishment by
Special Troyka (a panel of three prosecutors). The sentence was enforced during the
night on March 21-22, 1938. Exoneration granted in 1955.
44Klugge Alexander Yevgenyevich (1879-1919), a lawyer, a Collegiate As-
sessor of German origin, graduate of the School of Law at Novorossiysk University.
In 1903-1906 Klugge was holding various positions at the Judicial Court in Tiflis
(Tbilisi), since June 2, 1906 to 1907, Assistant Justice for the Peace at the Alexan-
dropol Division, the District Court of Erivan, In January-November 1908, the head of
the 2nd Investigation Precinct, Bambak Investigation & Peace Precinct, Alexandropol
Uyezd. Following the new assignment on November 17, 1908, Klugge became an
acting inquisitor at the 1st Precinct, the District Court of Vitebsk, Poletsk Uyezd. On
December 8, 1908 A.Klugge was appointed the Deputy Public Prosecutor at the
District Court of Baku, a position he retained up until his death. In June 1918 he
became a member of the Ad Hoc Investigation Commission to partake in an inves-
tigation team examining the events of March 1918 in Baku and its environs, as well
as in Shemakha. During A.Khasmammadov’s absence, Klugge assumed the duties
of the AHIC Chairman. Released from his obligations at the AHIC on May 8, 1919
due to decreasing scope of work, A.Klugge resumed his direct duties of the Deputy
Public Prosecutor at the District Court of Baku. Here he passed away from typhoid
fever on October 29, 1919.
45Lists of Damages inflicted to local residents were presented to the AHIC by
representatives of all four precincts of the town.
46Easter, one of the oldest Christian and Jewish religious fests and the major
event of the ecclesiastical calendar. Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus
Christ on this day, however due to the specificities of the solunar calendar, the exact
date of Easter is shifting every year. In the Jewish tradition, Passover is the central
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