Garegin Nzhdeh

First Balkan War Second Balkan War Armenian National Liberation Movement World War I

Garegin TerHarutyunyan was born onJanuary 1886 in the village of Kznut, Nakhchivan. He was the youngest of four children born to a local village priest. He lost his father, Priest Yeghishe, in his childhood. Nzhdeh got his early education at a Russian school in Nakhichevan City. He continued his higher education at the Tiflis Russian Gymnasium school. At the age ofhe joined the Armenian liberation movement. The word nzhdeh in Armenian means pilgrim or emigrant. Shortly after, he moved to St. Petersburg to continue his education in the local university. After two years of studying at the Faculty of Law, he left the St. Petersburg University and returned to the Caucasus in order to participate in the Armenian national movements against the Ottoman Empire.

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