Pyotr Z. Bazhbeuk-Melikov dating history

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Pyotr Zakharovich Bazhbeuk-Melikov, also Bachbeouk-Melikoff, Bazhbeuk-Melikyan or Bazhbeuk-Melikishvili (Armenian: Պետրոս Բաժբեուկ-Մելիքյան, Bedros Bažbeuk-Melikyan; Russian: Пётр Захарович Бажбеук-Меликов; Romanian: Petre Bajbeuc-Melikov, Bajbeug-Melicov, Bajbeuc-Melichian, or Basbeuc-Melikisvilli; February 27, 1872 – after 1939), was an ethnic Armenian politician and agronomist in Bessarabia. Educated in Tiflis Governorate and then in France, he had various administrative offices in the Russian Empire and the Russian Republic. He presented himself in the November 1917 election for the Russian Constituent Assembly as an affiliate of the Constitutional Democratic Party. Failing in this bid, Bazhbeuk was instead welcomed as an Armenian delegate by the Bessarabian assembly, or Sfatul Țării, just before the proclamation of a Moldavian Democratic Republic. Loyal toward the latter, he spoke out against Bolshevik infiltration, and asked for an intervention by the neighboring Kingdom of Romania. Though he welcomed the Romanian military expedition of early 1918, he found himself opposed to the subsequent union between Bessarabia and Romania, reverting to Russian monarchism.