Historical and philological journal
PUBLISHED SINCE 1958

ԼՈՒՅՍ Է ՏԵՍՆՈՒՄ 1958 ԹՎԱԿԱՆԻՑ
Историко-филологический журнал
ИЗДАЕТСЯ С 1958 ГОДА
  • Vahan Melikyan - The Persian Armenians during the February Revolution of Russia in 1917
    16 Pages | 39-55 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2024.2-39 |

    Revceived on: 2024-05-08 | Reviewed on: 2024-05-28 | Accepted for printing on: 2024-07-10

    Published in: 2024 N 2 (226) / History

    The fall of the autocracy in Russia in February 1917 was the reason for significant military and political, social and economic changes in Persia and changes in the life of the Persian Armenians. In the context of the ongoing World War in Persia, the status of military and political, economic and financial control of Russia, England, Germany and the Ottoman Empire continued to dominate, and the threat of loss of the country's sovereignty was obvious. All these processes influenced all sectors of the life of Persian Armenians, in particular, social-economic and social-political.

    KeywordsPersia Persian Armenians February Revolution Tehran Tabriz Hamadan Qazvin Russia Britain Atropatene Tumanyan brothers

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  • Susanna Hovhannisyan - Charents-Tumanyan: an unknown page of the artistic heritage of Yeghishe Charents
    16 Pages | 172-188 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2024.1-172 |

    Revceived on: 2024-01-25 | Reviewed on: 2024-02-01 | Accepted for printing on: 2024-03-22

    Published in: 2024 N 1 (225) / Literary studies

    The creative and personal ties of Yeghishe Charents and Hovhannes Tumanyan were in the focus of attention of both Charents and Tumanyan scholars in the last decades of the last century. The researchers concluded that Charents' poetry is largely a continuation of Tumanyan’s literary traditions. Charents' assessments and views on Tumanyan’s place and role in the history of Armenian literature, expressed both in critical and artistic works, were significant and became the cornerstone for Tumanyan studies.

    KeywordsHovhannes Tumanyan Charents Nvard Tumanyan a draft of an unknown poem by Charents collection “Works of Art” “Dedication to Nvard”.

  • Yeva Mnatsakanyan - Some observations on H. Tumanyan’s unfinished drama “Artavazd”
    15 Pages | 96-111 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2023.1-96 |

    Revceived on: 2023-02-15 | Reviewed on: 2023-02-25 | Accepted for printing on: 2023-03-23

    Published in: 2023 N 1 (222) / Literature

    On the basis of the manuscripts and other materials preserved in the archives of Tumanyan, one can make a rough idea of the tendency of the drama “Artavazd”, of its possible plot, ideology, psychological developments of the author, and symbols. By means of a comparative examination, not only several essential characteristics of the typological differentiation of Artavazd myth are highlighted, but possible hypotheses for revealing the contextual sub-layers of H. Tumanyan’s “Artavazd” drama are also suggested. While studying the issue, we applied the comparative, historical-comparative, interpretive methods, pointing out and analyzing the basis of tragical conflict between Artashes and Artavazd and the key features in Tumanyan’s notes and in the article “On the section of “Tenchair Satenik” by Khorenatsi”.

    Keywords H. Tumanyan M. Khorenatsi legend Artashes Artavazd Satenik unfinished drama notes mythological map envy longing psychological domain.

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  • Anushavan Zakaryan - David Ananun and Hovhannes Tumanyan: Litarary and public relations
    26 Pages | 175-201 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2023.2-175 |

    Revceived on: 2023-04-18 | Reviewed on: 2023-05-26 | Accepted for printing on: 2023-06-19

    Published in: 2023 N 2 (223) / Philosophy

    Armenologist David Ananun [David Hovhanovich (Hovhannesovich) Ter-Danielyan, 1880-1943] is a distinguished representative of Armenian social-political, literary and cultural reality of the first thirty years of the XX century. Throughout all his substantive activity he maintained close ties with many representatives of the Armenian reality of that time. His literary and public relations of extremely wide vector with the poet of all Armenians Hovhannes Tumanyan are of particular interest.

    KeywordsD. Ananun H. Tumanyan letters Caucasian society of Armenian writers newspaper “Mshak” articles Commission of inquiry biweekly newspaper “Cooperation of Armenia” quatrians.

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  • Petros Demirchyan - Assessment of Valery Bryusov in the Armenian literary and scientific thought
    23 Pages | 139-162 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2023.3-139 |

    Revceived on: 2023-09-10 | Reviewed on: 2023-09-18 | Accepted for printing on: 2023-11-29

    Published in: 2023 N 3 (224) / Literary studies

    The process of evaluation of the personality and activity of the famous Russian poet, critic, translator Valery Bryusov (1873-1924) by the Armenian literary and scientific mind has a history of more than a century. Vahan Teryan was one of the first to evaluate works of Valery Bryusov in 1913. In the Armenian environment, interest in the personality and works of Valery Bryusov rose sharply, especially after the Great Armenian Genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire, during the preparation and publication of the collection “Poetry of Armenia” compiled and edited by Bryusov in 1915–1916. Many prominent figures of Armenian literature of the time: Hovh. Hovhannisyan, Al. Shirvanzadeh, H. Tumanyan, V. Teryan, A. Chopanyan, N. Aghbalyan, spoke out in the forms of articles, poems, welcome speeches, letters, etc.

    KeywordsV. Bryusov literary critic translator Yu. Veselovsky M. Gorky V. Teryan Hovh. Tumanyan “Poetry of Armenia” Bryusov’s lectures visits to Transcaucasia.

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  • Anushavan Zakaryan - The talented son of the Lisitsyans: Levon Lisitsyan
    27 Pages | 49-76 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2022.1-49 |

    Revceived on: 2021-12-27 | Reviewed on: 2022-02-23 | Accepted for printing on: 2022-03-03

    Published in: 2022 N 1 (219) / Articles, reports

    January 9, 2022 marks the 130th anniversary of the birth of Levon Lisitsyan – an ethnographer, philologist, historian and public figure, the talented son of the Lisitsyans – prominent representatives of the Armenian reality of the late 19th and early 20th cc. The short but meaningful, eventful life and activities of L. Lisitsyan can be divided into the following stages: a) student years (universities of Munich, Moscow, Vienna), during which his scientific activity was born: he was the advisor in Armenian culture to the outstanding Austrian professor of history and architecture Josef Strzygowski; b) contribution to the scientific expedition headed by J. Strzygowski, who visited Armenia from September 14 – October 4, 1913; c) participation in the actions of the Armenian volunteer squads in 1914–1915 and useful activities for the nation in the position of plenipotentiary representative in Bayazet of the Committee of Fraternal Assistance to Armenian Refugees.

    Keywordsthe Lisitsyans Levon Lisitsyan Tiflis Moscow Vienna J. Strzygowski T. Toramanyan volunteer squads Petrograd N. Marr L. Auer Constantinople Yerevan Sarikamish Etchmiadzin Hov. Tumanyan Av. Isahakyan Al. Kulebyakin K. Bakhshi.

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  • Susanna Hovhannisyan - Intuition in Hovhannes Tumanyan’s life
    17 Pages | 122-139 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2022.2-122 |

    Revceived on: 2022-01-25 | Reviewed on: 2022-01-28 | Accepted for printing on: 2022-05-02

    Published in: 2022 N 2 (220) / Literature

    Hovhannes Tumanyan was largely endowed with an intuitive perception of the cause-and-effect relationships of phenomena and realities, as well as telepathic abilities. Complex sensations of the subconscious world were available to him, thanks to which intuition and foresight became essential components of the poet’s worldview and world perception, became important means of knowing the world.

    KeywordsHovh. Tumanyan intuition foresight sleep psychological signals extrasensory perception creative inspiration instinct.

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  • David Gasparyan - Eghishe Charents’ foreign journey (November 21, 1924 – beginning of June, 1925)
    27 Pages | 85-112 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2022.3-85 |

    Revceived on: 2022-09-05 | Reviewed on: 2022-09-12 | Accepted for printing on: 2022-11-09

    Published in: 2022 N 3 (221) / Literature

    On November 21, 1924, Charents left Batumi for an international journey on the ship “Bukovina”. Abroad, Charents was perceived as a symbol of the USSR, as a red poet. His first stop was Trabzon, where he wrote the poem "Lenin and Alin" based on the impressions he got there. Then follows Constantinople where Charents wrote the poem “Stambol” from December 19 to 22 and in the same month, he published it in a separate booklet. On January 9, 1925, he left Istanbul for Athens. In early February of 1925, the poet left Greece and in a few days, he was already in Rome. On the way, he visited the island of Capri in the Bay of Naples.

    KeywordsYeghishe Charents Al. Myasnikyan H. Surkhatyan Trabzon Istanbul Athens Rome Venice St. Lazar Paris Berlin V. Navasardyan Av. Isahakyan K. Zaryan H. Tumanyan.

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  • Tadevos Khachatryan - Image of the world according to Hovhannes Tumanyan
    19 Pages | 113-132 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2022.3-113 |

    Revceived on: 2022-10-10 | Reviewed on: 2022-10-12 | Accepted for printing on: 2022-11-09

    Published in: 2022 N 3 (221) / Literature

    Creative heritage of Hovhannes Tumanyan occupies the most important place in the Armenian literature and in the entire spiritual culture. The poet's creative works has become the best embodiment of the past and present of Armenia, its spiritual power and artistic traditions.

    KeywordsTumanyan image world analytical philosophy structuralism picture of motives associations mythological character collective archetype theory of expression.

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  • Susanna Hovhannisyan - The poet’s daughter: newly revealed pages from the Tumanyan’s family archive
    15 Pages | 179-194 |

    Revceived on: 2021-04-16 | Reviewed on: 2021-05-12 | Accepted for printing on: 2021-06-18

    Published in: 2021 N 2 (217) / Articles, reports

    Among the ten children of Hovhannes Tumanyan Nvard Tu¬manyan (1892–1957) stood out for her role in the Armenian cultural and social life and especially for her contribution to the Tumanyan studies, whose life and work are remarkable and interesting not only because she was the daughter of the great poet, but also for her being a bright personality, literary scholar, devotee of Armenian culture.

    KeywordsNvard Tumanyan Ye. Charents H. Acharyan S. Gorodetsky Av. Isahakyan V. Teryan M. Vardazaryan Hovnanyan gymnasium diaries me¬moirs poetry dedicated to Nvard “The Novice (Mtsyri)” translation influence literary “Quartette” “Thursdays”.

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  • Susanna Hovhannisyan - History in the unfinished works of Hovhannes Tumanyan (historical dramas and stories)
    12 Pages | 124-136 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2025.2-124 |

    Revceived on: 2025-01-20 | Reviewed on: 2025-02-13 | Accepted for printing on: 2025-07-11

    Published in: 2025 N 2 (229) / Literary studies

    The historical and philosophical worldview of Hovhannes Tumanyan is reflected in his unfinished works, which have yet to become a subject of scientific study, although, in 2022, they were published in the 5th volume of the poet's “Complete Collection of Works”. Critical comprehension of Tumanyan’s historical perspectives holds true significance, driven by the intensification of security issues in recent years and the ongoing war of external forces against the Armenian people and their statehood.

    KeywordsHovhannes Tumanyan history of Armenia historical dramas fall of Ani “Artavazd II” “King Hovhannes” (or “Smbat II”) “Impressions of War”.

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  • Anna Asatryan, Lilit Hakobyan - The opera “Parvana” by Nikol Galanderyan: the Forgotten Echo of Armenian Romanticism (in Eng.)
    18 Pages | 161-179 | DOI: 10.54503/0135-0536-2026.1-161 |

    Revceived on: 2026-03-07 | Reviewed on: 2026-03-16 | Accepted for printing on: 2026-03-20

    Published in: 2026 N 1(231) / Arts

    In the history of Armenian music, certain names endure forever. One of them is the Iranian-Armenian composer, pedagogue, and musical-public figure Nikol Galanderyan (1881–1944). His opera “Parvana”, whose libretto is written to Hovhannes Tumanyan’s legend of the same name, is a unique fusion of folk mysticism. Oriental lyricism and traditions of European classical opera. Galanderyan created the said opera in a historically complicated period (the first half of the XX century), while living and creating in Tehran. “Parvana” is the first and, perhaps, for now the only attempt to bring to the opera stage Tumanyan’s profound national, almost mystical text.

    KeywordsNikol Galanderyan Hovhannes Tumanyan the opera “Parvana” musical Tumanyaneana Iranian–Armenian music.

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