This Week in Armenian History
THE FIRST COMMEMORATION OF THE GENOCIDE IN SOVIET ARMENIA (April 24, 1965)
On April 24, 1926, the mourning bells sounded at the Holy See of Echmiadzin for the last time. ...
Birth of Shirvanzade (April 18, 1858)
Shirvanzade, one of the major names in Armenian realist novel and ...
Birth of Arshile Gorky (April 15, 1904)
There are many cases in the history of arts and letters when an artist who has be...
Birth of Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikian (April 3, 1922)
The Bazhbeuk-Melikians, a family with old roots in Tiflis, nowaday...
Birth of Parsegh Tuglaciyan (April 1, 1933)
Parsegh Tuglaciyan (known in Turkish milieus as Pars Tuglaci) had ...
Birth of Harry Babasin (March 19, 1921)
Harry Babasin, one of so many Armenians who have made their name i...
Death of Artashes Abeghian (March 13, 1955)
Armenian Studies scholars have frequently engaged in science, but also in public affairs. Artas...
Death of Khachik Dashtents (March 9, 1974)
A survivor himself, Khachik Dashtents was one of the writers who resurrected the ...
Birth of Rupen Sevag (February 28, 1885)
Rupen Chilingirian was born on February 28, 1885, in the village o...
DEATH OF ALEXANDER YERITSIAN (February 21, 1902)
Alexander Yeritsian is one of those names of Armenian scholarship ...