2016-10-26-13-40-20On October 26, 2016 the exhibition “Armenian merchants in Astrahan’ in the end of the 17th century: on the basis of documents from archival fund “Astrahan’ board” of the Scientific and historical archive of SPbIH RAS” was opened in “Tapan” museum in Moscow. It is organized in the framework of International scientific conference “Armenians in history and culture of Russia: 18th – 20th centuries”.
The exhibition will stay open until November 11, 2016.

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