Ghazaros Aghayan received his early education in Bolnisi, and at the age of thirteen he entered to the Nersisyan School in Tiflis.
10 Facts About Ghazaros Aghayan
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Ghazaros Aghayan left the school after one year because of his family's financial problems.
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Ghazaros Aghayan was a hunter, a factory worker and a farm labourer before he joined fellow writer Mikael Nalbandian in the Armenian cultural and intellectual revival of the 19th century.
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Ghazaros Aghayan taught in Akhaltskha, Alexandropol, Yerevan and Shushi, and supervised Armenian parochial schools of Georgia.
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Ghazaros Aghayan is an author of textbooks for Armenian schools and works on education.
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Ghazaros Aghayan collaborated on "Aghbyur", an illustrated monthly for children.
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Ghazaros Aghayan was then under the control of the tsarist gendarmerie until the end of his life.
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Ghazaros Aghayan obtained great popularity in the sphere of children's literature.
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Ghazaros Aghayan has translated works of Alexander Pushkin and Ivan Krylov.
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Ghazaros Aghayan was maternal grandfather of Lazar Sarian and Anatoliy Eiramdzhan and father-in-law of the painter Martiros Saryan.