Hovhannes Kajaznuni §

Born Hovhannes Ter-Hovhannisian in Akhaltsikhe in 1868; trained as an architect in St. Petersburg and worked in Baku and Tbilisi before joining the ARF. Designated Prime Minister of the new Republic of Armenia by the Armenian National Council on 30 June 1918 and confirmed after the move to Yerevan; led the government through the catastrophic first year, Ottoman occupation south of the Arpa, Spanish flu, famine, and approximately 200,000 Genocide-survivor refugees. Resigned in summer 1919 in favour of Khatisian; emigrated after the Sovietisation of November 1920. His 1923 Bucharest pamphlet "The ARF Has Nothing to Do Anymore", a self-criticism of Dashnak strategy, was seized on by Soviet propaganda and split the émigré ARF. Returned to Soviet Armenia in 1925 and worked as an architect; arrested in the Stalin purges and died in custody on 15 January 1938.