Stepan Zorian

Stepan Zorian

Stepan Zorian (Armenian: _hy. Ստեփան Զորեան) better known by his "nom de guerre" Rosdom ( _hy. Ռոստոմ), (1867-1919) was one of the three founders of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation along Christapor Mikaelian and Simon Zavarian, also part of Armenian national liberation movement.

Founding of the ARF

Rosdom was born in the village Tzghna of Goghtn (Eastern Armenia). He attended the Village Administration college of Moscow but dropped out before graduating. He eventually went to Tiflis, Georgia where he became an activist and revolutionary. There he met fellow revolutionaries Christapor Mikaelian and Simon Zavarian. Together, they co-founded the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) in 1890. Their new political party had a major impact on Armenians. It gained support by demanding reforms and taking up arms to defend Armenian citizens of the Ottoman Empire.

Works and travels

Rosdom eventually moved to Geneva, Switzerland where he managed the "Droshak" (Troshag) newspaper, as the editor. In Garin, pretending to be a teapot salesman because ARF party members were banned in Turkey, he established student unions.

He later settled in Bulgaria to create cooperation between ARF and the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization in its struggle against Abdul Hamid II. He also opened an Armenian school there with his wife, Lisa Melik Shahnazarian.

Post Constitution days

During the 1908 Constitutional revolution in Turkey, he moved to Garin. In 1914, World War I broke out, he moved to Europe and then to the Caucasus. There he participated in the Armenian-Tatar wars. During the Iranian revolution, he participated in the revolution alongside Persian revolutionaries. He also directs the fight of self-defense in Baku, Azerbaijan. After a calamitous result, he fled to Iran with thousands of Armenians.

Death

Rosdom died in 1919, in the city of Tiflis at the age of 52. He was the only one of the three founders of the ARF to see an independent Armenia, which was one of the party's primary goal's.

References

* [http://www.jdemirdjian.com/Armenians/Armenian_Heroes/Rosdom.htm Rosdom biography in Armenian and English]
* Translated from the Armenian: Mihran Kurdoghlian, Badmoutioun Hayots, C. hador [Armenian History, volume III] , Athens, Greece, 1996, pg. 34.

See also

* Armenian Revolutionary Federation
* Democratic Republic of Armenia
* Christapor Mikaelian
* Simon Zavarian


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