“We were given an order: to kill all Armenian men between the ages of fourteen and sixty-five. The rest of the Armenians should have been dealt with by local units and specially formed groups of criminals who had been released from prison. But we learned about this later… When we went out to the streets… …
The policy of peace ensured by the occupant troops of Russia specified in the document published below is a very “interesting” imperial policy adopted at the time by the Bolsheviks. This policy is still pursued by the modern Kremlin. The significance of the disputed territories, as well as the presence of the occupant forces and …
A remarkable fact – after giving up Syunik to Azerbaijan, as it was supposed to happen by the decision of the Bolsheviks, the territory of Armenia would become insufficient for it to maintain the status of a Soviet republic. Armenia was to become an autonomy in the composition of the neighboring Soviet republics. This did …
For the average viewer, this scene is reminiscent of the consequences of a war or a terrifying natural disaster. However, Armenians will unmistakably recognize in these frames Armenian children, almost certainly orphans, who are being boarded on the ships leaving the Turkish port in Constantinople. Climbing the steep ladder, kids are pushing and throwing each …
“I rarely had to see people fighting with as much bitterness as during the siege of Van. It was a never-ending battle, sometimes turning into a hand-to-hand fight. Here, no one begged for mercy and no one spared no one. Neither a Christian nor a Muslim returned from captivity. To save a prisoner in those …
According to the plan of Operation Nemesis, the leaders of the Young Turks who had staged the Armenian Genocide of 1915, the organizers of the Armenian pogroms in Baku in 1918, and the Armenian traitors who had collaborated with the Turks suffered a deserved punishment. One of the avengers was a native of the Artsakh …
The photograph presented below depicts a festive procession from Abovyan Street (former Astafyan) to the building of the Parliament of the Republic of Armenia. This procession was headed by a woman in a car dressed in black and wearing a black veil, which symbolized Armenia’s bloody past. Immediately behind her car was another, with a …
“In the Armenian world is playing out a tragedy unprecedented in history, the actors and performers of which are violence, the living tools of this violence represented by scum from among Armenians, and the Armenian people as the victim of this violence. Every time, when the fatal confluence of political circumstances allowed foreigners to dominate …
We present to your attention a unique photo depicting the official delegation of the First Republic of Armenia to the United States in 1919. In the bottom row, from left to right are Minister of Finance Artashes Enfiajian, Prince, General, and later Armenian Ambassador to the UK Hakob Bagratuni, Prime Minister Hovhannes Kajaznuni, Commander Andranik …
The photo above depicts a festive procession and military parade in Yerevan in honor of the birthday of the First Republic of Armenia. Exactly 100 years ago, on May 28, 1919, the Parliament of the First Republic at a specially convened solemn meeting adopted a historic act, the Declaration on United and Independent Armenia. This …
The sword of Levon VI (sometimes Leo V or VI) Lusignan, the last king of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, is now kept in the Mekhitarist Museum on the island of St. Lazzaro in Venice. Levon VI (1342 – November 29, 1393) was King of Cilician Armenia from the Armenian branch of the French noble …
It’s not a secret for any Armenian who Andranik Ozanyan and Drastamat Kanayan, Mkhitar Sparapet and David Bek, Monte Melkonyan and Mirza Abaev, Jangir Agha and Movses Silikov were. Of course, I did not forget and will emphasize that Garegin Ter-Harutyunyan (Nzhdeh) is a separate cult in the people. This is the “color” of liberation …
In the 17th century, Armenian merchants introduced the Swedes to Persians, establishing strong trade relations with and between them. In 1687, the King of Sweden Charles XI signed a decree allowing five Armenian traders to import silk into Sweden from Persia. The decree, which is now kept in the Central Museum of Stockholm, contains the …
In 1915-1916, as a result of the victories of the tsarist army and the efforts of the Armenian military and volunteers, a significant part of Western Armenia was liberated from the Turkish yoke. After that, the Armenian refugees, who were shy of death and had miraculously escaped from the massacres, began to return to their …
“I summoned you to say my last word. The freedom conquered with blood will not live long if the spirit of struggle weakens and our unity shatters. Unity is the source of all our blessings, but discord is the source of evil and strife which kill a good deed. Always remember: our ancestors lost their …
“In 1915, the genocide of Armenians began in the territory of the Ottoman Empire. On the Genocide Remembrance Day (the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Crime, as the Armenians call it), we bring to your attention the memories of eyewitnesses to this tragedy. I am the son of Mkrtich Yartymian, a …
My trip from the province to Constantinople took place under hellish conditions: I will never forget what I have seen and heard. I witnessed the extermination of an entire people, and what I am writing now is a summary, a schematic depiction of what had happened, and it cannot even represent a thousandth part of …
Commander Narses (478-573) was a Romanized Armenian general and an influential court official of the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Justinian I. Along with Belisarius, he was one of the great generals in service of the Byzantine Emperor. Narses was born presumably in 478 in the territory of Armenia, which was then part of Sassanian Persia. …