Gabriel Sundukian

Gabriel Sundukian was born in 1825 in Tiflis into a wealthy family of Armenian merchants and learned classical and modern Armenian, Russian, French and Italian. He studied oriental languages at the University of Saint Petersburg, where he wrote a dissertation on Persian metrics, then entered the imperial administration, where he spent his life; from 1854 to 1858 he was banished to Derbent, in Dagestan. He translated his own plays into Georgian and died in his native city in 1912.

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