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Hovhannissiants Grave-stone 1906 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Banants

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1906 y․

A bilingual (Armenian and Russian) epitaph carved on a tombstone (165 x 34 x 69 centimetres) of white marble (4 lines in both languages):
In this grave reposes registrar and doctor’s chief assistant Yegor Grigorian Hovhannissian. Born on 13 September 1841, he died on 14 June 1906.
The other side of the gravestone bears the Russian translation of the same epitaph: Здесь покоится прахь медицинскаго | старшего коллежскаго регистратора | Егора Григорьевича Оганезова, | род. 13 сентября 1841 г., сконч. 14 июня 1906 г.:
Published in: “Gardmank,” 1996, No. 2, p. 14.
Note: In 1887 Yegor Hovhannissiants founded a college in Banants in memory of his prematurely dead son Alexandre (“Nor-Dar,” 1887, No. 113, p. 3). In 1888 a Patriarchal bull approved his membership of the Board of Trustees of that institution (“Ararat,” 1888, p. 129).