Armenian Resistance -Mourat - Defense of Erzinjan 1916
Aram Torossian Garegin Pasdermadjian · Wikimedia Commons, 1918
Collection summary
Armenian volunteer leader Murad (of Sebastia) at the defence of Erzincan, 1916; killed at the Battle of Baku in 1918.
This image on Wikimedia Commons comes from Aram Torossian and Garegin Pasdermadjian's publication on Armenian resistance and shows Murad of Sebastia leading volunteers at the Battle of Erzincan in 1916. The Commons caption notes that Murad later died fighting at the Battle of Baku; Armenian sources place his death in the defence of Baku on 4 August 1918. For the collection it documents a prominent figure on the opposing side and supports a multi-perspective presentation.
The source's own abstract
MOURAT lead the volunteers at Battle of Erzinjan later heroically collapse and died in the fighting at Battle of Baku .
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