Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan quoted from the book "History of Armenians": "In 1064, about the capture of the city of Ani by the Seljuks under the rule of Byzantium, as well as about cheap and free-lance officials.
The one who deprived Ani of the empire, writes Attaliates, was the slyness of the Emperor Monomachus.
The governor of Ani was receiving a stipend, but the emperor introduced himself to an Armenian named Bagarat and told him that he could hold the position of governor without pay and better protect the city and its surroundings.
But Bagarat managed things badly, he did not provide the citadel with bread, he did not solve any military or political issue and put the magnificent city in great danger, because after all, this "unpaid general" had dispersed the garrison to benefit the state and promised the city without defend the garrison."
