 The authorities of the short-lived Kingdom of Illyria, set up as a client state of the Austrian Empire, confiscated the property of his monastery in 1810.After futile attempts to obtain restitution, the monks moved to Austria and established the Mekhitarist Monastery of Vienna.There they lived by the instruction of Armenian youth and the revenue from a printing press they set up to provide liturgical and scholarly books in the Armenian language.