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  ANN/Groong -- TCC - Shoushanian, Tamrazian, Mahari (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Shirvanzade's experience in Baku and his sympathy for the struggling poor led him to adopt a radical democratic politics and to join the Hnchak part.
The scope of Shirvanzade's novels is vast, incorporating all aspects of life, all classes of society and all nationalities of the region.
Claiming that Shirvanzade's novels are an unrivalled artistic record of town and city life in the Caucuses of the late 19th century Tamrazian puts them on a par with the best work of the European critical realist tradition.
groong.usc.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /tcc/tcc-20020311.html   (2178 words)

  
 Armenian Tourist Attractions: Yerevan Guidebook
Alexander Griboyedov (there is a statue to him in Yerevan), diplomat, writer and statesman, who took part in the taking of the Yerevan fortress in 1827, devoted much of his energy to liberating Eastern Armenia from the foreign yoke and incorporating it within Russia.
This is the statue of Alexander Tamanyan, sculpted by Artashes Ovsepyan, an expression of the gratitude of the people of Yerevan to the outstanding town planner who did so much for their city.
Alexander Pushkin visited Armenia in the summer of 1829, a trip which he described in his essay “Journey to Arzrum”.
www.cilicia.com /armo5_yerevanbook.html   (11278 words)

  
 ARMENIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION - CAL POLY SAN LUIS OBISPO
They provided the impulse for the development of modern Armenian national dramaturgy, the most brilliant representatives of which were Gabriel Sundukyan, Akop Paronyan, Alexander Shirvanzade and Levon Shant, now recognized Armenian classics.
Sundukyan's plays "Khatabala" and "Pepo", Shirvanzade's "Because of Honour", L. Tolstoy's "The Living Corpse", M. Lermontov's"Masquerade", N. Gogol's "The Inspector-General", F. Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot", Moliere's "Tartuffe", Beaumarchais' "The Marriage of Figaro" and many others have won the recognition of audiences as true achievements of creative art.
The State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Alexander Spendiaryan is housed in a building designed by A. Tamanyan and is one of the architectural highlights of Yerevan.
www.calpoly.edu /~asaclub/tourism3.htm   (1278 words)

  
 Archag Tchopanian - Biography
He documented St. Grigor’s heritage as a distinguished literary masterpiece and it is to Tchopanian’s credit that St. Grigor is appreciated and revered today as one of the world’s greatest writers.
He was respected among the prominent Eastern Armenian writers of his day such as Alexander Shirvanzade, Avetik Isahakyan, and Hovhannes Toumanian.
He also was held in high regard by the French writer, Anatole France; the Belgium poet, Emile Verhaeren; Russian artists and writers, Romen Rollan, and Valerij Brusov as well as a host of other world luminaries.
armenianhouse.org /tchopanyan/bio-en.html   (444 words)

  
 Alexander Mantashov - 168 Hours Online
During their conversation this person asked several questions relating to the field of oil production and by chance said that the only person he had heard from that region was Alexander Mantashov.
One of the well known writers of modern Armenian classical literature Alexander Shirvanzade wrote about Mantashov, “His huge financial property was not the one to make him make charity, the one to do that was his kind heart.
He made charity not for the purpose to satisfy his ambitions, but because this was the nature of his soul.
www.168.am /en/articles/2107   (1292 words)

  
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Was a friend of Alexander Pushkin, famous Russian poet.
Lived in Kazan, where her husband, brother of poet Baratynski, was a governor.
Was on tour in Aleksandropol, Kars, Sarykamysh, Baku, Iran, Turkey and West Armenia with plays written by Shirvanzade, Paronian, Sundukian, Shakespear, Shiller, Ibsen and others.
www.arminco.com /hayknet/encik.htm   (1961 words)

  
 ARMENIA: The Survival of a Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Came to the attention of tsar Alexander II in 1880, who appointed him minister of the interior (with exceptional powers).
Loris-Melikov resigned under the reactionary policies of Alexander III; lived in exile until his death.
MIASNIKIAN, ALEXANDER (Nor Nakhichevan 1886 – near Tiflis 1925) Educated Lazarian Institute, Moscow.
www.armenia-survival.50megs.com /Survival_Biographies.htm   (10610 words)

  
 The Genocide
In the vilayet of Van involved in war operations, the Turks had time, until the progress of the Russian troops, to exterminate on the spot thousands of Armenians.
Armenian writers Hovhannes Toumanian and Alexander Shirvanzadé, became witnesses of bewildering scenes when they acompanied the Russian army entering Van.
And when the Russian troops retreated, a great number of Armenians, who had heroically fought in the self-defensive combats of Van, Sassoun, Moush, Shatakh, Shapin-Garahissar and other localities, migrated with them to Eastern Armenia.
www.jdemirdjian.com /Pages/genocide.htm   (3793 words)

  
 kurghinian.html
Experiencing utmost hardship and poverty, Kurghinian immersed herself in the Russian revolutionary milieu and some of her most powerfully charged poetry was carved during these years of her affiliation with Rostov’s laborer-proletarian underground.
Before the 1917 Russian Revolution, Kurghinian, with the assistance of Alexander Miasnikian, had managed to publish her first small compilation of poetry under the title The Ringing of the Dawn (1907).
Although Kurghinian tried her hand at prose and drama, she is best known for her reactionary poetry and political activities concerning women’s issues.
www.aiwa-net.org /AIWAwriters/kurghinian.html   (1008 words)

  
 gambling on Stewart Alexander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance
In 1972 Nishan Parlakian was invited by Archbishop Torkom Manoogian, Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (now the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem), to take over the Diocesan Drama Group and stage plays in the Armenian language.
For twelve years he produced the works of such eminent Armenian dramatists as Alexander Shirvanzade, Gabriel Sundukian and Hagop Baronian.
He has translated a number of plays from Armenian including Shirvanzade's For the Sake of Honor, published by St. Vartan Press and reprinted in the Columbia University Press anthology, Modern Armenian Drama (2001), which he edited with S. Peter Cowe.
www.armeniandrama.org /people.php?p=nishan-parlakian   (315 words)

  
 ANN/Groong -- TCC - Shirvanzade, Zorian, Paramaz
'The Evil Spirit' A novel of backward prejudice by Shirvanzade Alexander Shirvanzade (1858-1935) is generally regarded as one of the great exponents of the Armenian realist novel.
Their relationships, together with those of the minor characters, convey well the drama of people whose lives are trapped in the web of medieval prejudices and poverty.
`The Story of a Life' - a fictional memoir Stephan Zorian's early novels and short stories, drawn as they are from life in Armenia itself, reflect national traditions and practices more authentically than the works of writers such as Shirvanzade who focused substantially on the life of Diaspora communities.
groong.usc.edu /tcc/tcc-20010828.html   (1951 words)

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