04
Jun
Death of Yervant Osgan (June 10, 1914)
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Yervant Osgan, sculptor and painter, is considered the first sculptor of Turkey.
He was born in S...
This Week in Armenian History
28
May
Death of Arlene Francis (May 31, 2001)
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A pioneer in both radio and television, Arlene Francis was “the third most recognized woman in the U...
21
May
Death of Neshan Krekorian (May 21, 1978)
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The story of the “unsinkable” Titanic, the “greatest luxury liner of its time,” and its Armenian pas...
14
May
Death of Catholicos Movses III Datevatsi (May 14, 1632)
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The “dark centuries” in Armenian history (fifteenth-seventeenth centuries), when the country was a b...
07
May
Death of Ruben Orbeli (May 9, 1943)
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Three scientist brothers, Levon, Hovsep, and Ruben, would make important contributions to Soviet and...
30
Apr
Death of Hrachia Kochar (May 2, 1965)
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Writer Hrachia Kochar, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide, became one of the official voices of Sta...
23
Apr
THE FIRST COMMEMORATION OF THE GENOCIDE IN SOVIET ARMENIA (April 24, 1965)
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On April 24, 1926, the mourning bells sounded at the Holy See of Echmiadzin for the last time. The C...
16
Apr
Birth of Shirvanzade (April 18, 1858)
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Shirvanzade, one of the major names in Armenian realist novel and theater, was born Alexander Movsis...
09
Apr
Birth of Arshile Gorky (April 15, 1904)
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There are many cases in the history of arts and letters when an artist who has been engulfed by a tr...
02
Apr
Birth of Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikian (April 3, 1922)
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The Bazhbeuk-Melikians, a family with old roots in Tiflis, nowadays Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia,...