He had received education at a military gymnasium in Tbilisi and had served in a light cavalry regiment for a while.

In 1916 she married Colonel Shirin beg Kasamanski, who was undergoing medical treatment in Tiflis after having been wounded in one of the battles during World War I.

During the Soviet era, she taught painting in Baku and contributed illustrations to the "Eastern Step" journal.

In 1907–1908 she took a course in professional painting at the Caucasus Artistic Society, where she was taught by Oscar Schmerling (who later worked as caricaturist for the Azeri-language magazine Molla Nasraddin).

She also designed playbill and posters while working at the Muslim Women's Caucasian Benevolent Society.

After Sovietisation, she gave art lessons and worked as an illustrator for the magazine Sharg Gadini.