page_title: Mikayel Nalbandian
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Mikayel Nalbandian / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: the house of Mikayel Nalbandian's parents in New Nakhichevan, now Roston on Don, Russia
context_page_description: Mikayel Nalbandian was an Armenian writer, poet, political theorist and activist.
  Nalbandian was born in Nakhichevan-on-Don, an Armenian town in southern Russia, and traveled extensively, although he visited Armenia itself only once. A radical intellectual, Nalbandian was an avid advocate of secularism and anti-clericalism, the use of modern Armenian and a vocal critic of the conservative clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church. He also espoused anti-Catholicism. Inspired by the Enlightenment and the Italian unification, Nalbandian advocated reform, cultural nationalism and agrarianism among Armenians. In his later years he was influenced by Russian radicals such as Alexander Herzen and Nikolay Chernyshevsky. For his association with them, he was persecuted and died in exile at 37.
  A champion of modernism, he is seen as a follower of Khachatur Abovian. In turn, he influenced many others, including the novelist Raffi, Armenian nationalist revolutionaries, and Armenian Marxists, such as Alexander Miasnikian.
caption: The house of the Nalbandian family in New Nakhichevan
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