Said Alim Khan

Counter-revolutionary forces Monarchy and royalism 1880–1944 → Died in exile

Last Emir of Bukhara, driven into exile in Afghanistan by the Red Army in 1920

Born in Bukhara in 1880, the son of Emir Abdulahad Khan, he was sent at thirteen to Saint Petersburg, where he spent three years at the Nicholas Cadet Corps studying government and military affairs, and on his return governed Nasaf and Karmana. In 1911 he became the twelfth and last emir of the Manghit dynasty. He began his reign with reforms against bribery and unauthorised taxation, but soon sided with the traditionalists, and after 1917 he repressed the reformers, the Young Bukharans among them. He repulsed the Bolshevik attack led by Kolesov in March 1918, but during the Bukhara operation at the end of August 1920 he fled via Dushanbe to Kabul. In exile he cooperated with the British in the hope of regaining power and is said to have supported the Basmachi; he died in Kabul in 1944.

Also known as: Sayyid Mir Muhammad Alim Khan · Mohammed Alim Khan · Seyid Alim Khan