father predecessor death_date mother birth_place death_place title birth_date article_title name reign
ahmed giray devlet iv giray , bahadır ii giray 1787 saliha sultan , a daughter of ahmed iii edirne rhodes khan of the crimean khanate 1745 Şahin giray
 Şahin giray 1777 -- 1782 , 1782-1783
Şahin giray

Şahin giray , shahin khan girai was the last khan of crimea .
he was born in 1745 in edirne .
he studied in greece and also in venice .
he reputedly spoke the crimean tatar language as well as ottoman turkish , italian and greek .
when he was 20 , his uncle crimean khan qırım giray called him back to the crimea from his foreign school whereupon he was installed as the commander of nogai horde .
in 1770 , the russian empire won a great battle against the ottoman empire and sought an alliance with the crimean khanate against the turks .
selim giray declined the proposal , precipitating a surprise attack by russia against the khanate .
the khan to sent envoys to saint petersburg to sue for peace .
during this mission catherine ii met Şahin giray and wrote of him : '' `` the crimean prince is the most gentle tatar , i have ever seen .
he 's very talented , bronze-colored , good-looking , circumcised and writes poetry .
he wants to see and learn everything . '' ''
in 1776 , Şahin giray succeeded his uncle to become khan of crimea .
during his brief reign he embarked on a program to re-build and modernise the crimean khanate .
these reforms centred on the economy and government infrastructure but included opening factories and moving the capital from bakhchisaray to the important trade city of caffa .
eventually under enormous pressure from russia and facing the inevitability of defeat , he agreed to a russian offer to incorporate the khanate into the russian empire .
following this he was compelled to move to saint petersburg where he lived under house arrest .
he appealed to be allowed to move to edirne where he had spent much of his childhood .
in 1787 , russia and the ottoman empire agreed to allow him to move to edirne .
this move was not the retirement he was expecting because the ottoman authorities saw him as a possible challenger to the imperial ottoman throne .
he was moved under arrest to constantinople and then rhodes where he was executed later that year .
his descendants lived in bursa , istanbul , and other turkish cities .
