The birth record of Hovhannes Aivazovsky, 1817
The record of the birth of Hovhannes Aivazovsky (Aivazian) in a church register, under item 17, 1817.
The photograph shows a bluish page of the register with handwritten Armenian entries arranged in lines and columns, with numbers on the left. The year 1817 can be seen at the top, and there is a red mark in the margin next to the number 17.








