Shortly after returning to Constantinople in 1896 , he managed to escape the pogroms of the Armenians by the Sultan Abdul Hamid II by taking refuge in Bulgaria . After getting his architecture degree recognized by the Bulgarian Government , he designed various buildings and won the contest to design the Municipal Professional Theatre in Varna which was later built with only slight modifications by Bulgarian architect Nikola Lazarov
pogroms of the Armenians
Hamidian massacres
Léon Gurekian