Levon Tumanyan (Armenian: Լևոն Թումանյան, 1869 - 1942) was a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Empire of the first convocation from Erivan Governorate.

Levon Tumanyan
Լևոն Թումանյան
Born1869
Died1942
NationalityArmenian
EducationLazarev Institute of Oriental Languages
Known forDeputy of the State Duma, 1906
Political partyConstitutional Democratic Party
FatherPhilippos Tumanyan
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Biography

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Levon Tumanyan was born in 1869 in the town of Ashtarak, studied at Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages in Moscow, where since 1892 courses of legal sciences were introduced for those who wished to attend together with the students of the Moscow university.[1] However, after the 5th year, he had to stop his education[2] and in 1897 he returned to his motherland,[3] worked as a private lawyer in civil and criminal cases. He did translations. In 1899 his translation of "The Song of the Falcon" (Russian: «Песня о Соколе») was printed in the magazine "Murch".

Levon Tumanyan was a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party. He signed the Vyborg Manifesto on the 10th of July 1906 in Vyborg, and in December 1907 was convicted under Art. 129, part 1, p.p. 51 and 3 of the Criminal Code for 3 months in prison and disenfranchised.

Later, he was engaged in professional (legal) activities[4]

He was buried in the family cemetery in the town of Ashtarak, in Armenia.

 
The grave of Levon Tumanyan in Ashtarak

References

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  1. ^ Krymsky, Ahatanhel. Лазаревский институт восточных языков в Москве //Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона (in Russian).
  2. ^ Areshian, Salomeia (1957). Армянская печать и царская цензура (in Russian).
  3. ^ Ashtarak. No. 45 (66035). 1991-04-18. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ Shahaziz, Yervand (1987). The History of Ashtarak (in Armenian). Yerevan. pp. 54–55.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)