Vartan Matiossian
I recently came across an asinine piece crafted by some Azerbaijani "historian" and lodged at their "Presidential Library" meant to show the huge antiquity of Baku (1), which was an obscure Russian outpost in the nineteenth century until oil extraction started and Armenians, who were among the pioneering oilmen, became one of the main driving forces behind the building and embellishment the city in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. However, this is something those "historians" always fail to remember.
