Mehdigulu Khan Vafa

Mehdigulu Khan Vafa
Mehdigulu in the 1880s
BornMehdigulu Khan Utsmiev
1855
Shusha, Elisabethpol Governorate, Caucasus Viceroyalty
Died8 September 1900 (1900-09-09) (aged 44)
Tbilisi, Tiflis Governorate, Caucasus Viceroyalty
Wars and battlesRusso-Turkish War (1877–1878)
Noble familyUtsmiev (paternally)
Javanshir clan (maternally)
FatherKhasay Khan Utsmiyev
MotherKhurshidbanu Natavan

Mehdigulu Khan Utsmiyev (Azerbaijani: Mehdiqulu xan Xasay xan oğlu Üsmiyev; 1855, Shusha – 1900, Tiflis) was a lyrical poet of Azerbaijan of Kumyk and Javanshir descent, a lieutenant colonel in the Imperial Russian Army. He authored poetry under pseudonym Vafa (Persian: وفا, lit.'Loyal').