Morteza Qoli Khan Qajar


Morteza Qoli Khan Qajar
"Portrait of Morteza Qoli Khan", 1796. Painted by Vladimir Borovikovsky.
Born1750 or 1755
Died1798 or 1800
St. Petersburg (if 1798) or Astrakhan (if 1800)
HouseQajar
FatherMohammad Hasan Khan Qajar

Morteza Qoli Khan Qajar (Persian: مرتضی قلی خان قاجار, 1750/1755 – either 1798 in St. Petersburg or 1800 at Astrakhan) - was a prince of Persia's Qajar dynasty, and the brother of Agha Mohammad Khan. A protégé of the Russian Empire, he lived in St. Petersburg at the end of the reign of Catherine II.