Ruben Khan-Azat ( hy, Ռուբեն Խան-Ազատ 1862,

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- 1929,

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), was an

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n political activist, one of the founders and leaders of the

Social Democrat Hunchakian Party The Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP) ( hy, Սոցիալ Դեմոկրատ Հնչակյան Կուսակցություն; ՍԴՀԿ, translit=Sots’ial Demokrat Hnch’akyan Kusakts’ut’yun), is the oldest continuously-operating Armenian ...

and

Hunchak The Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP) ( hy, Սոցիալ Դեմոկրատ Հնչակյան Կուսակցություն; ՍԴՀԿ, translit=Sots’ial Demokrat Hnch’akyan Kusakts’ut’yun), is the oldest continuously-operating Armenian ...

journal.

Biography

Ruben Khan-Azat was born as Nshan Karapetyan ( hy, Նշան Կարապետյան) in 1862 in Yerevan, then part of the

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. ...

. Khanazat studied at the

Geneva University The University of Geneva (French: ''Université de Genève'') is a public research university located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1559 by John Calvin as a theological seminary. It remained focused on theology until the 17th centur ...

, then in 1889 moved to

Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya ( Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis ( ...

and

Western Armenia Western Armenia (Western Armenian: Արեւմտեան Հայաստան, ''Arevmdian Hayasdan'') is a term to refer to the eastern parts of Turkey (formerly the Ottoman Empire) that are part of the historical homeland of the Armenians. Weste ...

and organized first Hunchakian political groups, initiated the Kum Kapu Affray. He supported the idea of Armenian parties' (Hunchak and

Dashnak The Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( hy, Հայ Յեղափոխական Դաշնակցութիւն, ՀՅԴ ( classical spelling), abbr. ARF or ARF-D) also known as Dashnaktsutyun (collectively referred to as Dashnaks for short), is an Armenian ...

) unity, welcomed the cooperation between the Armenian and Greek organizations. In 1893-95 he worked in USA, then in Russia, he became one of the supporters of Zeitun Resistance, collected money to help his compatriots, and was arrested in 1895. After he released in 1901, he left political life. Khanazat saw that Russia and Western countries never condemned the Hamidian massacres, and that Armenian armed power is not united to stop this violence.''The Armenian Question, Encyclopedia'', ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdian, Yerevan, 1996, p. 165 In 1905, Khan-Azat left the Hunchakian Party and retired his political career. Khan-Azat is the author of "Idealism or materialism?" (1904), "What is a Constitutuion?" (1907), "Dashnaktsutyun and its Leaders" (1907), literary translations from French and Russian. He also wrote the ''Memoirs of an Armenian revolutionary'' and published them in 1927-29.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khan-Azat, Ruben 1862 births 1929 deaths Politicians from Yerevan Social Democrat Hunchakian Party politicians Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire Expatriates from the Ottoman Empire in the United States