THE RELIGIOUS-CULTURAL LIFE OF VAN-VASPURAKAN AND AN ATTEMPT TO CRAETE A STATE (1908-1918)

By: Avetis Harutyunyan, Professor at the Chair of Armenian History of the ASPU, Candidate of Historical Sciences, avharutunyan@mail.ru

Echmiatsin: 2018, Echmiatsin ... publishing house, 308 p.

The monograph represents the religious and cultural life of the Armenian population of Vaspurakan province at the eve of the World War I until its end in 1918. The study is based on extensive archival documents, memoirs and secondary literature. The author focuses on the exceptional role of this part of historical Armenia during the troublesome period of Armenian history.