Alim Khan

Emir Muhammed Alim Khan (1880-1944) was the last emir of Bukhara. Alim Khan was ruler of Bukhara's autonomous city-state in the Central Asia. The Emir presided over the internal affairs of his emirate as absolute monarch, although since the mid-1800s Bukhara had been a vassal state of the Russian Empire. Bolsheviks annexed Bukhara in 1920 turning the Russian civil war and the emir fled and went into exile to Afghanistan. He died in Kabul in 1944.