Chopuriants Grave-stone :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Chopuriants Grave-stone 1900 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Banants

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1900 y․

12 lines in the Armenian original engraved on a white marble tombstone (78 x 22 x 42 centimetres):
In this grave reposes Michael Chopuriants Yesayan, a handsome young man, who yielded up his spirit in the prime of life. ... He enjoyed the blessings of true love with his sweetheart until the cruel, untimely death took his life away, leaving his kinsfolk in great grief and mourning. Born in the year 1870, he died on 9 June 1900.
The Armenian original published in: “Gardmank,” 1996, No. 3, p. 14.