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Sayat-Nova

Died in 1795

Sayat-Nova, whose real name was Haroutioun Sayatian, was born in Tiflis, in 1712 according to most sources, in 1722 according to others, to a mother from the city and a father who had come from Adana or Aleppo. A singer, poet, and player of the kamancha and the drum, he was a minstrel at the court of Heraclius II and lost his place, so tradition says, for having loved the king's sister. Ordained a priest in 1759, a widower in 1768 with four children, he served in Tiflis and then at the monastery of Haghpat, where the Persian army of Agha Mohammad Khan killed him in September 1795.

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