1. Sarkis Kasyan was arrested and later shot in 1937 during the Great Purge.
11 Facts About Sarkis Kasyan
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Sarkis Kasyan was born on January 28,1876, in the town of Shushi in the Elisabethpol Governorate of the Russian Empire.
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Sarkis Kasyan was expelled from school in the seventh grade for disobedience.
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Sarkis Kasyan left for Germany in 1900 and graduated from Leipzig Commercial Institute and the Faculty of Philosophy of Berlin University in 1904.
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Sarkis Kasyan was a member of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1905.
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Sarkis Kasyan was one of the founders of Armenian Bolshevik press in 1905, and worked at a number of Bolshevik newspapers based in Tiflis and Baku.
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Sarkis Kasyan headed the Tiflis communist party organization from 1912 to 1914.
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Sarkis Kasyan signed the declaration of the Sovietization of Armenia.
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Sarkis Kasyan was elected a member of the All-Union Central Executive Committee.
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In 1937, during the Great Purge, Sarkis Kasyan was arrested and charged with organizing "a right-wing terrorist organization and armed groups" in Tbilisi in order to assassinate party and government leadership.
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Besides his own political writings, Sarkis Kasyan translated works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels into Armenian.