Fatali Khan
Fatali Khan, who always strived for expansion of his possessions, soon decided a campaign to the south. In spring of 1784, gathering a significant amount of troop, he went over the Aras River and in August seized Ardabil and Meshkin cities. He pushed out Nazar Ali Khan – the ruler of Ardabil and appointed Tala Hasan khan of javad as a governor to Ardabil, and Khudaverdi bey to Meshkin. According to P.G.Butkov - prominent Russian researcher of Caucasus -, when the troops of Fatali Khan seized Ardabil "“general-lieutenant Potyemkin demanded from Fatali Khan to withdraw his troops."" And also feudal rulers of Dagestan became more active again and all these forced Fatali Khan to return to Shirvan.