Exactly 95 years before the beginning of the April 2016 war, on April 2, 1921, the Russian army entered the capital of Armenia, Yerevan, to break the will and desire of the Armenian people to live in an independent and lawful country. The Armenian military forces led by sparapet Kuro Tarkhanian retreated to Syunik, where …
Memory resurrects the tragic history of Armenia of the late 19th – early 20th centuries, the massacre in Constantinople, the Sasun massacre, the “great murderer”, and the vile indifference of the Christians of “cultural” Europe which they expressed towards the extermination of their “brothers in Christ”. The shameful act of the plunder of the church …
When it comes to hostile actions against the Republic of Armenia in 1920 and the demolition of Armenian statehood, it must be remembered that the first military encroachment on Armenia was made not by the Kemalists but by Azerbaijan and, after the country’s Sovietization, by Soviet Russia. The Armenian-Turkish war began in September 1920. It …
We present to your attention a unique document from 1917 written by the Emir of the city of Mecca Hussein ibn Ali al-Hashimi. In it, His Highness appealed to the Arabs to help the Armenians. The statement of the emir is stored in the Hashemite court of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. “In the name of …
So, on June 11, 1899, the articles of association of the A.I. Mantashev and Co. joint-stock oil industry and trading company were approved, according to which the founders of the company were the Tiflis 1st guild merchant Al. Mantashiants and the Baku 1st guild merchant M. Aramiants. The fixed capital of the company was 22 …
April 2, 2019, marks the 26th anniversary of the liberation of Karvachar (Kelbajar). On March 27, 1993, Armenian troops launched an operation to liberate Karvachar. By March 29, the city has been surrounded. Within 3 days, the Armenian forces occupied the regional center. The population of the city had been evacuated by helicopters or had …
English diplomat James Morier in 1812, on the way from Tiflis to Tehran, made a stop in Karakilisa (present-day Vanadzor). Morier writes in his notes: “The houses in Karakilisa, like all the houses in this country, are underground. Karakilisa is a small village that, except for being an outpost for the Russian army, is of …
Vanadzor is the third largest city in Armenia after Yerevan and Gyumri. It is the administrative center of Lori Province. The Turkish name of the city “Karakilisa” (Armenian: Ղարաքիլիսա, kara kilise – “black church”) was for the first time mentioned in a record made on one of the pages of the manuscript Bible of Priest …
In November-March 1892, negotiations were held in Rostov-on-Don, in which 7 major companies producing kerosene participated: “Nobel Brothers”, “S.M. Shibaev and KO”, as well as members of the Baku Standard Al. Mantashiants, G. Lianosian, Budaghian, and… Tagiyev. In total, these firms annually produced over 700 thousand tons of kerosene, of which about 272 thousand tons …
At the orphanages established by the Near East Relief in 1920, there were large production centers which were organized and headed by Byrtene Anderson. One of the orphanages was located in Alexandropol (Gyumri). For its four thousand orphans, the first half of the day was a working time. They were trained in crafts and performed …
This majestic building of old Yerevan today resides in an unkempt and disappointing condition. The building at 38 Pushkin Street is almost the only surviving building in this historic district of Yerevan. This is a two-story mansion that used to belong to Arakel Afrikian. It was built of black tuff at the beginning of the …
The time has come to turn to the figure of a great Armenian, a man without whom forming an idea of either the Baku or the global oil industry would not be possible. A person without whom, getting an idea of the essence of an Armenian, his enterprise and industriousness would not be possible. Without …
“In Armenia, the Hellenes found a large number of beehives, from which precious honeycombs were obtained. But those who ate it (the honey) fell ill with some strange disease since those who ate this honey lost their minds and became like the dead. And since many ate it because of its sweet taste, a large …
In 1885, the first steps in the oil industry were made by one of the largest banking firms in Europe, the Paris Rothschild banking house. This company has been providing government loans to the Russian Empire in France. Thanks to its powerful capital, the Rothschild family acquired numerous oil fields, built processing plants and warehouses …
In the summer of 1914, at the initiative of German public figure and doctor of theology Johannes Lepsius, the public organization German-Armenian Society was founded. For many years engaged in the Armenian issue, Johannes Lepsius has been collecting funds for the construction of shelters, schools, hospitals, and industrial enterprises for Armenians of Asia Minor and …
After the death of Hovhannes Mirzoian (1885), his widow Daria and her sons, Muscovite traders Grigor and Melkon, and also daughter Maria founded the oil production and trading partnership “Brothers Mirzoyev and KO” with a fixed capital of 2,1 million rubles. Being representatives of the aristocratic elite of Tiflis, the Mirzoian family wisely transferred the …
We present to your attention a photo from the collection of Armen Marsoobian. This photo was taken by the photo studio “Dildilian” in 1910 in Western Armenia in the city of Marzavan or Merzifon located in Sebastia in the province of Amasia. The photo shows a normal business day in the fabric manufacturing workshop belonging …
Kristapor Araratian (Christophor Araratov) was born in 1876 into the family of a colonel of the Russian army in the city of Mtskheta, Tiflis province, Georgia. The phrase “Homeland and Honor” was the motto of his family’s military coat of arms. He received his initial education at the cadet school in Tiflis and then continued …