Akhmed Tsalikov

أحمد تساليكوف

1882 CE · 1299 AH† – 2 September 1928 CE · 18 Rabi' I 1347 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Ossetian writer and public figure (1882–1928), a Menshevik leader and a leading voice of Russia's Muslims in 1917: he addressed the All-Russian Muslim Congress in Moscow, was proposed by the All-Russian Muslim Council for a seat in the Provisional Government, and sat in the Constituent Assembly. After the Soviet takeover of the Caucasus he emigrated to Czechoslovakia and Poland, where he wrote the novel 'Brother against Brother' and died at Warsaw in 1928.