Tyran Chrakyan (1875–1921) is one of the outstanding Western Armenian poets of the early twentieth century, author of the lyrical and philosophical prose poem “Inner World” (1906) and the poetic cycle “Cypress Country” published in 1908. The poetry of the “Cypress Country” collection is based on the symbolic aesthetics of the world perception. The collection consists of forty poems that are closely interrelated to the lyrical plot. The lyrical hero, as the embodiment of perfection and the link between the earth and heaven, reflects on cypresses.

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Vahan Teryan, one of the pillars of the Armenian literature and culture of the XX century, was born on January 28, 1885 in the village of Gandza in the Akhalkalaki province (now Georgia). He received his primary education at the rural and Akhalkalaki city schools and then he continued his studies in Tiflis. From 1899 to 1906, Teryan studied at the gymnasium of the Lazarev Seminary in Moscow. From 1906 to 1912, he studied at the department of Russian Language and Russian Literature of the Historical and Philological Faculty of Moscow University and from 1913 to 1916, he was a student at the faculty of Oriental Languages at St. Petersburg University.

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