Yervant Odian

Yervant Odian was born in 1869 in Constantinople into a large Armenian family and was raised by his uncle Krikor Odian, at whose home men of letters gathered. During the massacres of August 1896 he left the city and wandered for twelve years, from Athens to Paris, Cairo, Vienna, London and Bombay. He returned in 1909, was deported in 1915 as far as the Syrian desert, survived as an interpreter for German officers, then took in orphans, and left Constantinople in 1922 for Bucharest and the Near East. He died in Cairo in 1926.

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• NovelComrade PanchoonieԸնկեր ԲանչունիYervant Odian · 1909Literature