Mikayel Nalbandian
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Mikayel Nalbandian was a Russian Armenian writer, poet, political theorist and revolutionary.
Mikayel Nalbandian portrait
The house of the Nalbandian family in New Nakhichevan
An undated photo of Nalbandian
The bust of Nalbandian at his grave at the courtyard of Holy Cross Armenian Church, Rostov-on-Don
Raphael Patkanian
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Raphael Patkanian, also known by the penname Gamar Katipa, was a nineteenth-century Russian Armenian writer and educator. He was born into a noted family of Armenian intellectuals in Nakhichevan-on-Do
Mikayel Nalbandian
…Modern Armenian (ashkharhabar), only through which, he believed, could the Armenian people be enlightened. Nalbandian's and other modernizers' (e.g., Raphael Patkanian, Abovian) promotion of Modern Armenian became a primary cause of cultural innovation and educational reform. He defended his insistence of the use of…
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Patkanian's (left) and Mikayel Nalbandian's graves in Nor Nakhijevan
A photograph of Patkanian in his later years