Mikayel VarandianMikayel Varandian (Hovhannisian, 1870, Shusha

Shusha

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, Russian Empire

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 - 1934, France

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) was an Armenia

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n historian.

He studied at Geneva University, where he met Kristapor Mikaelian and Rostom

Stepan Zorian

300px|thumb|RosdomStepan Zorian better known by his nom de guerre Rosdom , was one of the three founders of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation along Christapor Mikaelian and Simon Zavarian, also part of Armenian national liberation movement.- Founding of the ARF :Rosdom was born in the village...

, since 1898 he was one of the main contributors of Droshak Journal

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. Since 1907 he was the Representative of ARF at the Second International

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, contacted with the Europe

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an socialists. He is the author of "The History of ARF" (Vol. 1 and 2) research.

Sources

• The Armenian Question, encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1996, p. 432.