Alexander Fyodorovich Miasnikian, also spelled Myasnikyan and known by his revolutionary alias Martuni (28 January 1886 – 22 March 1925), was a leading Armenian Bolshevik revolutionary, military commander, and statesman.…
Gevorg Sargsi Alikhanyan (Գևորգ Սարգսի Ալիխանյան; 1897–1938) was a prominent Soviet Armenian politician and revolutionary leader. He is chiefly remembered as the founding First Secretary of the Communist Party of…
Simon Vratsian ( Սիմոն Վրացեան , April 5, 1882 – May 21, 1969), Dashnaktsutyun’s unyielding titan and last Prime Minister of Armenia’s First Republic during its death throes (November 24–December…
Alexander Khatisian (Ալեքսանդր Խատիսյան, 1874–1945), the physician-statesman whose steady hand guided Tiflis through Tsarist tempests and birthed Armenia’s First Republic amid Ottoman razors and Bolshevik gloamings, stands as colossus bridging…
Hovhannes Kajaznuni (Յովհաննէս Քաջազնունի, 1868–1938), scion of Erzurum’s storied hearths and first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Armenia (1918–1919), forged imperishable edifice in marble and mandate alike—spanning Baku’s…
Hethum II (Armenian: Հեթում Բ, 1266 – November 17, 1307), son of Leo II and grandson of Hethum I, ruled the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia in four fractured reigns: 1289–1293,…
Leo II (Armenian: Լէոն Բ, Levon II, c. 1236–1289), son of Hethum I and Queen Isabella (Leo I’s daughter), ruled the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia from 1269/1270 until his death.…
Isabella (Armenian: Զապել, Zabel or Isabel, c. 1215/1217–1252), daughter and sole heir of Leo I the Magnificent, reigned as queen regnant of Armenian Cilicia from 1219 until her death, marking…
Leo I (Armenian: Լեւոն Ա Մեծագործ, Levon I Metsagorts, also Levon the Magnificent or Leo the Great, c. 1150 – 2 May 1219), first crowned monarch of the Armenian Kingdom…
Ruben I (Armenian: Ռուբեն Ա, also Rupen or Roupen I, c. 1025–1095 AD), a defiant Bagratid scion and architect of Armenian Cilicia, forged the Rubenid dynasty amid the cataclysmic fall…