Alexander Shirvanzade

Alexander Shirvanzade (1858-1935), whose civil name was Alexander Movsissian, was born in Shamakhi into a tailor's family. His father's death and the quarrels that followed made him leave school: he made his way to Baku, obtained a clerk's post in the provincial administration there and completed his education on his own. He settled in Tiflis in 1883, was exiled for two years to Odessa in January 1898, left for Paris in 1905 and again in 1919, and returned to Soviet Armenia in 1926, where he was treated as a classic in his lifetime. He died in Kislovodsk and lies buried in Yerevan.

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• NovelChaosՔաոսAlexander Shirvanzade · 1898LiteraturePublic domain