She was born in 1894, Nakhchivan to Rahim Khan Nakhchivanski, an elder brother of Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski and a member of Nakhchivanski family. She got her first education at Boarding School of Saint Nina at Baku. Being admitted to Moscow Conservatory in 1915, she was one of the first Azerbaijani women to get educated abroad. Her teacher at Conservatory was Umberto Masetti, Italian vocal pedagogue and Sergey Obukov, Russian opera singer of Bolshoi Theatre. After completing her education, she lived in Saint Petersburg for a while and later worked for Azerbaijan State Opera and Ballet Theatre in 1919-1934. She was a director of a small opera course functioning under Opera Theater in 1935.[1]
In the 30s, by the order of Uzeyir Hajibeyov, she instructed at that time still young composers Tofig Guliyev and Zakir Bagirov to record the notes of mugham maqams "Rast", "Zabul-Segah" and "Dugah" while Mirza Mansur Mansurov played them on tar.[2]
She died in summer of 1963, Baku.
Family
She was married to Feyzullah Mirza Qajar until 1920. Her second husband was Count Nikolai Nikolaievich Khudyakov.[3] She had a son from her first marriage - Shafi, named after Shafi Khan Qajar, she had adoptive children from second marriage Nadir Aliyev-Khudyakov, Adelia Aliyeva-Khudyakova and Marina Khudyakova.
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