Garabet Yazmaciyan

Garabet Yazmaciyan was a prominent Ottoman painter of Armenian descent.

According to the register of deaths in the Church of Surp Takavor in Kadikoy, Yazmaciyan was born in Uskudar and his wifes name was Deruni. Garabet Yazmaciyan came from a family of three children who were born and grew up in Uskudar. He was an introvert man, and a skilled violinist. His first wife was a relative of Nubar Pasha and twenty years older than himself, died four years after they got married. Yazmaciyans house burned down 70 years ago, and nothing but a few paintings were saved. While carrying these paintings to a friends shop in Kadikoy, he was attacked and beaten by thieves, who took the paintings. For some time after this, Yazmaciyan was unable to speak from shock. He lived in the shop of this same friend in Kadikoy for a while, until he made the acquittance of a widow named Sirpuhi, whose daughter was studying Latin in Italy. Sirpuhi and Garabet ended up getting married. After the daughter of Sirpuhi, Alis, returned from Italy, the family moved to Cevizli and eight months

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