Varvara Sahakjan

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Varwara Sahakjan ( Armenian Վարվառե Սահակյան ; † 1934 in Beirut ), was an Armenian politician . She was one of the first three women in the 80-member parliament of the short-lived Democratic Republic of Armenia .

Life

Varwara Sahakjan was one of the first members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation founded in 1890 ("Dashnaken"). On May 28, 1918, the first Republic of Armenia became independent. Her husband Avetik Sahakjan became the country's first parliamentary speaker . The young republic gave itself universal suffrage for men and women over the age of 20. Since there was no strong women's suffrage movement in Tsarist Russia , it was Armenian migrants who brought this idea with them from Western Europe. Sahakjan was elected with Katarine Salian-Manoukian and Perchouhi Partizpanjan-Barseghjan on June 21 and 23, 1919 as MPs. In the 80-member parliament, it focused on the area of ​​education and legislative initiatives in this area.

On November 29, 1920, Armenian Bolsheviks took power without bloodshed and on December 2, 1920 proclaimed the Soviet Republic. Four days later marched 11th Army of the Red Army one. As a result, the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed, which in December 1922 co-founded the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Her husband was detained in Yerevan .

After the failure of the February 1921 uprising, the couple and their two children fled to Tabriz in what is now Iran . In 1927 they went to Iraq and finally to Beirut in Lebanon for health reasons . There she got involved in the Armenian Aid Service. In 1932 Sahakjan lost her second child, and a year later her husband.

Varwara Sahakjan died in Beirut in 1934.

See also

  • Diana Abgar (1859–1937), Armenian ambassador to Japan in 1920.

literature

  • Sona Zeytlyan: The Role of Armenian Women in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement . Los Angeles 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Women's Suffrage. The Armenian Formula . (English, accessed on August 28, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Sahakjan, Varvara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Վարվառե Սահակյան (HyS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 1934
Place of death Beirut