Their services and specialties include Gallery Auctions, Internet Auctions, Tagged Estate Sales, and documented Appraisals for tax, estate and other purposes. The book was written by journalist Henry Leyford Gates, whose novelist-wife Eleanor Brown Gates became Mardiganian's legal guardian in America. As demonstrated in their sales results, they have the understanding, the know-how and the experience to promote a wide, wide range of valuable commodities. Americans have made it a more civilized way. They made them bend down, and after raping them, they made them sit on the pointed wood, through the vagina. She stated that "The Turks didn't make their crosses like that. She described what was actually an impalement. However, almost 70 years later Mardiganian revealed to film historian Anthony Slide that the scene was inaccurate. The film Auction of Souls (1919), which was based on her book Ravished Armenia, showed the victims nailed to crosses. She later moved to Tbilisi (Tiflis) in the Caucasus and, through the mediation of General Andranik Ozanian and orders of the Russian military leadership in the Caucasus, was sent to the United States for recovery and to bear witness to the sufferings of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.Īurora Mardiganian, a survivor of the Armenian genocide of 1915–1923, recalled sixteen young Armenian girls being "crucified" by their Ottoman tormentors. MacCallum, a Canadian doctor and missionary stationed with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), who safely returned her to Erzurum, which had come under Russian control. She was taken to the harem of a number of Turkish pashas, but had remained attached to her Christian Armenian faith despite being tortured repeatedly at the hands of her captors. She personally witnessed the murder of her father, mother, brothers and sisters. The story starts in 1915 when Arshaluys was 14 years old. She was the daughter of a wealthy Armenian financier in the city. The translation of our database to English is an ongoing task and due to this not all information is available in English, however we are more than happy to answer any questions via telephone or email.The author Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian was born in the city of Çemişgezek, near Harput (Kharpert), (present-day Turkish province of Elâzığ), Ottoman Empire. Using our search engine you can easily browse, admire and list approximately 18,000 pieces with images, descriptions and prices, as well as being able to read short biographies of over 3,000 artists. Our website contains a comprehensive database of works sold by Agra Art since 1990. In this regard we also work in close conjunction with the team of experts at the Warsaw National Museum. Our team works hard to confirm the authenticity of any of the artwork that is put up for auction. If you have any artwork that falls into this category and are looking to sell, please contact us via any of the means listed above. Our team of highly qualified professionals are on hand in all galleries to offer any assistance or advice you may require.Īgra Art is constantly seeking both paintings and other pieces of art from around the world. Within our galleries you will find a wide range of both fine and contemporary art from some of the most prestigious Polish artists of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Our galleries are situated in the centre of Warsaw, close to several internationally renowned hotels. The company was established in 1990 and since then, it has organised hundreds of highly successful auctions, one of them being a charity auction by the appointment of Mr Lech Walesa, President of Poland. Agra Art is one of the foremost Polish auction houses, specialising in Polish fine and contemporary paintings.
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