Lazarev(Lazarian)

Influential Armenian family settled in Moscow, Russia, that gave a number of patriots of Russian orientation. The brothers Hovannes and Ovakim Lazarian founded the famous seminary in Moscow in 1815, as well as several schools in Tiflis and Nor-Nakhichevan. Eghiazar Lazarev organized the return of some 50,000 Armenians to Armenia from Iran in 1828. His brother Khachatur Lazarev, State Councilor, compiled the Acts of History of Armenian people. Their elder brother Hovannes, also State Councilor, edited the Armenian-Russian dictionary.

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