Simon Zavarian
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Simon Zavarian (Armenian: Սիմոն Զաւարեան, also known by his nom de guerre Anton, Անտոն; 1866 – 1913) was a leader of the Armenian national liberation movement and one of the three founders of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, along with Kristapor Mikaelian and Stepan Zorian.[1]
Biography[]
Zavarian was born in the village of Igahat in the Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Aygehat in Lori Province, Armenia).[2] He graduated from the Nersisian School in Tiflis, then attended the Petrovsky Agricultural Academy in Moscow, where he met Kristapor Mikaelian and Stepan Zorian.[3] In Moscow, he became a member of the Russian revolutionary organization Narodnaya Volya.[3] He later settled in Tiflis, where he co-founded the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) with Kristapor Mikaelian and Stepan Zorian in 1890.[2]
Zavarian played a prominent role in the creation of the party's plans and rules and served as the executive officer of the party's eastern Bureau.[3] He also conducted research for the party and performed organizational work during his many travels across Europe and the Ottoman Empire.[2] In 1902, he went to Geneva, where he served as a member of the editorial board of Droshak, the ARF's official newspaper.[3]
During the 1908 Ottoman Constitutional Revolution, he participated in the development of plans for reforms for Ottoman Armenians and used the archives of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople to develop a census of the number of Armenians living in Western Armenia.[2] After 1908, Zavarian traveled to Mush and Sassoun as a teacher and inspector-general of Armenian schools.[3] He settled in Constantinople in 1911, where he taught at the Yessayan School and worked on the ARF newspaper Azadamard.[2][3]
Zavarian died of a heart attack in 1913 in Constantinople. He was buried in Tiflis.[3]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Hovannisian, Richard (2004). The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times. p. 215. ISBN 9781403964229.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Simon Zavarian Centennial Marked in Lori". Asbarez.com. Asbarez. 28 October 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Walker, Christopher J. (1990). Armenia: The Survival of a Nation (2nd ed.). London: Routledge. pp. 431, 456. ISBN 0-415-04684-X.
Sources[]
- Simon Zavarian biography in English and Armenian[dead link]
- Mihran Kurdoghlian, Badmoutioun Hayots, C. Hador (translators from the Armenian), Armenian History, volume III, p. 34, Athens, Greece: 1996 ISBN 9780520088030
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