page_title: Tserents
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Tserents / Biography
caption_attribution_description: English: The tombstone of Dzerents in Khojivank
context_page_description: Tserents, was a prominent Armenian writer.
context_section_description: Tserents studied at Venice, at the San Lazzaro degli Armeni of the Mekhitarist Order between 1831–1837 and continued his education in Paris (1848–1853). He returned to Constantinople in 1853 and lived for several years in Cyprus, working as a teacher and a scientist. Among with his daughter he moved to Tiflis in 1878, and worked as a teacher in the Nersisyan Armenian gymnasium. During that period as a doctor he visited Van, Alashkert, Basean and other towns of Western Armenia.
  He is buried at the Armenian Pantheon of Tbilisi.
caption: The tombstone of Dzerents in Khojivank
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