Semyon Abamelek-Lazarev
Semyon Semyonovich Abamelik-Lazarev, Semen Semenovich Abamelek-Lazarev or Abamelik-Lazaryan (1857, Moscow - 1916, Kislovodsk, buried in Saint-Petersburg) was a Russian-Armenian principal, archaeologist and geologist, a member of Russian Geographical Union, the honorary supervisor of the Lazarian Seminary in Moscow.
He finished the historio-philological faculty of Saint-Petersburg University. In 1881-1882 he discovered and researched the so-called "Palmirian tarif" inscription listing ancient customs rules, then researched the Jerash Greco-Roman monument in Palestine, publishing the results in two books. He was also a successful entrepreneur who opened factories of iron in the Ural region. His villa (Villa Abamelik) in Rome was owned by the embassy of USSR.
He married Princess Maria Pavlovna Demidova (Kiev, 3 February 1877 - Pratolino, 25 July 1955), a daughter of Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato, on 13 May 1897 in Helsinki.
Sources
- Armenian Concise Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdian, Yerevan, 1990, Vol. 1, p. 8
