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Avetik Isahakyan

Died in 1957

Avetik Isahakyan was born in 1875 in Alexandropol, today Gyumri. Expelled from the Etchmiadzin seminary after a strike, a free auditor in Leipzig in 1893, he joined the national movement: imprisoned in Yerevan in 1896, exiled to Odessa in 1898, he spent six months in Metekhi prison in Tiflis in 1908. He lived outside the country from 1911, returned in 1926, left again in 1930 and came home for good in 1936. Made an academician in 1943 and a laureate of the Soviet State Prize, he died in Yerevan in 1957.

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