Historians have established that he was born in his family estate of Kahrizli, located near the town of Agjabadi in present-day Azerbaijan.
In 1854 he was injured during a duel with Ali bey Sultanov, a fellow officer, and could not continue his military service.
[1] In the 1880s he was appointed member of the Shusha-based Bey Committee aimed at verifying the claims of some locals of having noble origins (if proven, they were exempt from some taxes according to the Russian law).
[2] Javanshir spent his last years in Kahrizli, engaged in translation of the poems by Pushkin, Lermontov and Zhukovsky into Azeri, as well as writing his own historical work in Russian, entitled On the Political Affairs of the Karabakh khanate in 1747–1805 (1883).
[3] His other works are Asar-i Ahmad bey Javanshir (a collection of children's poems) and Turk zarb-misallar majmuasi (an explanatory Azeri dictionary).