Prince Jaques Bagratuni was an Armenian prince and military commander.
23 Facts About Jaques Bagratuni
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Jaques Bagratuni was a Major General of the Russian Empire and First Republic of Armenia during World War I, and later became the Ambassador of Armenia to Great Britain.
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Jaques Bagratuni was born on 25 August 1879 in Akhaltsikhe city, in Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire to a noble family.
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Jaques Bagratuni's family is descended from the Bagratuni dynasty of former kings of Armenia in the Middle Ages.
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Jaques Bagratuni graduated from the Tiflis gymnasium in 1898 with honors, from the Kiev Military School in 1900, and from the Nicholas General Staff Academy in 1907.
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Jaques Bagratuni became a Lieutenant in 1904 and that same year he entered the Academy of the General Staff, but in early 1905 his teaching was interrupted and he went to the front of the Russian-Japanese War.
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Jaques Bagratuni commanded a Company in the 19th East Siberian Regiment.
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Jaques Bagratuni then led the 4th Intelligence Department of the district headquarters.
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Jaques Bagratuni uncovered a plot of Pan-Turkic emissaries in Tashkent and other cities of Turkestan.
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At the beginning of the First World War, Jaques Bagratuni was a staff officer for assignments at the headquarters of the 1st Army Corps of Turkestan.
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Jaques Bagratuni was given the rank of Colonel on 6 December 1915, and for making the differences in the battles he awarded the Order of St Vladimir 3rd class with Swords, Order of St Anna 2nd class with Swords, and Order of St George 4th class.
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Jaques Bagratuni was elected a delegate to the All-Russian Congress of officers in Petrograd in May 1917 and since June 1917 he served in the office of the Minister of War of the Russian Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky, his brother-in-law.
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Jaques Bagratuni became the Chief of Staff of the Petrograd Military District on 12 July 1917 and was promoted to major general on 30 August 1917.
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Jaques Bagratuni was one of the organizers of the creation of the Armenian military units in the Russian army.
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Jaques Bagratuni resigned and was arrested by the Bolsheviks in the Winter Palace.
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Jaques Bagratuni was imprisoned in the fortress until he was released on 15 December 1917.
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Jaques Bagratuni continued to work on the formation of an army corps and sending troops to Armenia and the Caucasus from late 1917 to early 1918.
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Jaques Bagratuni arrived in Baku on 7 March 1918 at the urging of revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin to assist the Centrocaspian Dictatorship, headed by Stepan Shahumyan.
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Jaques Bagratuni was keenly interested in the Armenian defense in Zangezur and Nagorno-Karabakh led by General Andranik Ozanian.
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Jaques Bagratuni was part of an Armenian military mission in August 1919 aimed at the United States for talks on cooperation in the defense sector.
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On 3 January 1920, Jaques Bagratuni received Robert Lansing, the US Secretary of State.
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Jaques Bagratuni died on 23 December 1943 in Lostwithiel in Cornwall.
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Jaques Bagratuni was married to Lidia Kudoyarova, a daughter of an official in Tashkent.