Hambardzum Arakelian ( hy, Համբարձում Առաքելյան ''Shahriar'' ( hy, Շահրիար), 1865,

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Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

- 1918,

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of approximately 1.5 million p ...

) was an

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ' ...

n journalist, writer and public activist, the founder of The Relief Committee for Armenian migrants (1915) and Armenian Popular party.

Biography

He studied in Shusha, then in Baku and

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, then moved to

, where edited "

Mshak ''Mshak'' ( hy, Մշակ meaning ''The Toiler'') was an Armenian language literary and political daily newspaper ( weekly when established) published from 1872–1920 in Tiflis, Russian Empire (now Tbilisi, Georgia). It was founded by Grigor Artsr ...

" paper (succeed to

Grigor Artsruni Grigor Artsruni (also spelled as Krikor Ardzruni) ( hy, Գրիգոր Արծրունի; 27 February 1845 – 19 December 1892) was an Armenian journalist, critic, writer and public activist, Doctor of Political Economy and Philosophy (degreed by He ...

). He participated to Hague Peace Conference, marked the necessity of reforms in Armenians-inhabited territories of

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

. An opposer of

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, he was killed in 1918.

Sources

* Concise Armenian Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan,

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, 1990, Vol. 1, pp. 145–146. 1865 births 1918 deaths Writers from Shusha Armenian journalists Armenian male writers {{armenia-journalist-stub