Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan was a Soviet writer, historian, and activist of Armenian descent. She was one of the “fellow travelers” of the 1920s led by the Serapion Brotherhood and became one of the most prolific communist writers experimenting with satirical-fantastic fiction. A minor planet 2144 Marietta discovered in 1975 by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh is …
Gabriel Kazanjian is an inventor who introduced the world to the handheld hair dryer. In the 1900s ladies used to dry their hair in beauty salons with huge standing devices. There was a need for a home-use hair dryer that would be small and easy to use. In 1911, Gabriel Kazanjian, a resident of Chicago, …
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I don’t know your ancient language, but I love that language. I feel the east in it, remember the centuries there, and see the glow of a mysterious hint of the past. I am proud to be translated into Armenian. Victor Hugo, a French writer Taken from Armenians And Armenia
Ivan Ivanovich Agayants was a leading Soviet NKVD/KGB intelligence officer of Armenian origin. Born the son of Hovhanes Agayants, priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church, in the town of Elizavetpol, in modern-day Azerbaijan on 28 August 1911, he followed two elder brothers into the secret police. In 1930, he moved to Moscow to begin work …
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Arshak Ter-Gukasov (Արշակ Տեր-Ղուկասյան) was a Lieutenant-General of the Russian Empire. Born in the Havlabar district of Tiflis, Georgia in 1819 to an Armenian family of clergymen originally from Shamkhor (today Şəmkir, Azerbaijan) he started his military career in 1850 and was subsequently involved in the war in the Caucasus. After being promoted to the …
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Elen Martirosyan was born on April 16, 2012, and raised in Armenia. She started her cultural path with the flute at the age of 5.5 years. Elen studies at the music school named after Alexey Hekimyan in the brass section in Susanna Ayvazyan’s class. During her studies, she participated in many school concerts, as well …
Original piece by Hagop Gyuloian (published by Asbarez in 1997) The white-haired Hovhannes Atamian, a carpet weaver, is working in his abode with a searing focus on the old and highly-valuable carpets he rescues from time and deterioration, and with great delight, recounts tales from the past, to which I bore witness in my youth. …
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Oscar-winning director Elia Kazan (“Streetcar Named Desire”, “Viva Zapata”, and “On the Waterfront”) toured Turkey when he traveled to “Kayseri”, his mother’s hometown. In his autobiography (“A Life,” Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1988), the Greek-born Kazan wrote the following about Turks: “They humble themselves before authority, then break loose in demonstrations of anger beyond bounds… …
Manuc Bey (the common Romanian rendering of Manuk Bey, the Armenian name of Emanuel Mârzayan; 1769–1817) was an Armenian merchant, diplomat, and innkeeper. He was born in Rousse (modern Ruse, Bulgaria) as a subject of the Ottoman Empire. A grain merchant, he amassed considerable wealth and was rumored at the time to be the wealthiest …
In “Global History” professor of architecture Mark Jarzombek mentions medieval architect Oton Matsaetsi (Odo of Metz in Germany) who was Armenian. Matsaetsi was the architect of Germigny-des-Pres (806-811), one of the most innovative stone structures in northern Europe. He was also the architect of Charlemagne’s Palace Church in Aachen in 794. The church’s architecture influenced …
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