Semyon Semyonovich Abamelik-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 1882 he discovered and researched the so-called "Palmirian tarif" inscription, then researched Jerash Greco-Roman monument in Palestine and published results in two books. He was also a successful entrepreneur and opened factories of iron in the Ural region. His villa (Villa Abamelik) in Rome was owned by the embassy of USSR.
He married a daughter of Pavel Pavlovich Demidov, 2nd Prince of San Donato.
Sources
- Armenian Concise Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdian, Yerevan, 1990, Vol. 1, p. 8