Avetis Nazarbekian

Avetis Vardani Nazarbekian (, 1866–1939), also known as Nazarbek, Avo and Lerents, was an Iranian Armenian poet, journalist, political activist and revolutionary. He was one of the founders of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party.

Biography Nazarbekian was born in Tabriz, Qajar Iran, but moved to the Russian Empire as a child and received his education there. He attended the male gymnasium in Tiflis. He then studied at Saint Petersburg Imperial University and the Sorbonne. His studies were financed by his uncle, the wealthy Tiflis Armenian capitalist Melikazarian. He focused on social sciences, familiarizing himself with contemporary economic and political theories. The Hunchakian party was significantly weakened by this split and was less active after 1896.

Works , Tiflis, 1883 (verse, in Armenian) , Geneva, 1889 (in Armenian) , Saint Petersburg, 1890 (verse, in Armenian) , Athens, 1892 (poem, in Armenian) , Athens, 1893 (verse, in Armenian) , Athens, 1893 (in Armenian) , London, 1895 (verse, in Armenian) Through the Storm: Pictures of Life in Armenia, London, 1899 (in English, translated by L. M. Elton) , Rusçuk, 1904 (poem, in Armenian)