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Vahan Terian

Died in 1920

Vahan Terian, whose real name was Ter-Grigorian, was born in 1885 in Gandza, in Javakhk, today in Georgia. A pupil in Tiflis and then at the Lazarev Institute in Moscow, he entered Moscow University and was briefly imprisoned for his Bolshevik commitment. He founded a publishing house in 1912, studied oriental languages in Saint Petersburg from 1913 and took part in the October Revolution of 1917. Ill with tuberculosis, he died in Orenburg in January 1920.

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