Dzhien Gazy Mirza Niiazov (Member of the Crimean Tatar Elite)

Dzhien Gazy Mirza Niiazov

Tavrida noble register entry

Cossack Captain (Esaul)

1836

Inscribed in part 2 of the rodoslovnaia kniga (reserved for those whose noble status was defined by military service).

1776

Dzhien Gazy Mirza (56) was married to Emma Sultana, daughter of Esaul Mengli Giray Mirza Shirin. They had no children.

He entered service as a collegiate registrar in 1801 in the Expedition of the Nogay Horde. In 1802 he joined the 2nd Nogay Cossack regiment as sotnik. The Nogay regiments were eliminated in 1804. In 1807 Niiazov received the rank of esaul in the Feodosiia Crimean Tatar regiment. He did not see battle, remaining on cordon duty along the Dniestr River July 1811 to March 1812. Remained in service until the regiments dissolved in 1817.

Niiazov owned 9 villages comprising 10,000 desiatinas in Feodosiia and Perekop uezdy.