Lernik Hakobyan - Daniel Varoujan: Proponent of liberty
25 Pages | 56-81 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2024.2-56 | 
Published in: 2024 N 2 (226) / Literary studies
140 years have passed since the birth of Daniel Varoujan – one of the most eminent representatives of the Western Armenian literature.
D. Varoujan was born on April 20, 1884, in the village of Prgnik, Sebastia vilayet. First, he studied at a village school, then in Constantinople, Venice and at Ghent University in Belgium. After receiving his education, he was engaged in teaching activities.
Petros Demirchyan - Yeghia Temirchipashyan as a literary critic
24 Pages | 82-106 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2024.2-82 | Published in: 2024 N 2 (226) / Literary studies
Yeghia Temirchipashyan (1851–1908) is a Western Armenian writer, philosopher, teacher, and editor. He is one of the original figures of the new Armenian literature of the second half of the XIX century; in addition to theoretical issues, in the course of his journalistic activity, naturally, he also dealt with the problems of the literary criticism. In his numerous publications of theoretical nature, Temirchipashyan thoroughly studied the issue “What is poetry”, in particular, “personal and impersonal literature”, analyzed the need for literary criticism, criteria for evaluating the contemporary literature, problems of true reflection of the modern stage of history. On the basis of all this, he expressed his attitude and appreciation of the works of the classical and modern writers.
David Gasparyan - Paruyr Sevak. Motherland and poet
32 Pages | 131-163 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2024.1-131 | Published in: 2024 N 1 (225) / Literary studies
Paruyr Sevak (1924–1971) lived and created during the Soviet years, developed his own theory of art, and took a worthy place in Armenian literature. His name was also heard in the All-Union poetry of that time, the paths of which were determined by Andrei Voznesensky, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Joseph Brodsky, Vladimir Vysotsky, Eduardas Mieželaitis, Ivan Drach, and others. He was recognized and appreciated in this literary environment. He translated their works, and they translated his.
Anushavan Zakaryan - The lecture of Sergey Gorodetsky on the Armenian question (Batumi, 1919) (in Russ.)
7 Pages | 164-171 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2024.1-164 | Published in: 2024 N 1 (225) / Literary studies
Sergey Gorodetsky (1884–1967), the famous Russian poet, writer, public speaker, translator and public figure made an invaluable contribution to covering and assessing, to revealing new facts and details of the various aspects of the Armenian reality of the 10s of the 20th century. Acting and living first in Western Armenia then in Transcaucasia (1916–1921), he kept a close eye on the events taking place in Armenia, on the interior and exterior situation of the country and raised his powerful voice in favor of the just stuggle of the Armenian people.
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 | 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.
Lilit Seyranyan - The principle of reflection in Mateos Zarifyan’s poetry
22 Pages | 55-77 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2024.3-55 | Published in: 2024 N 3 (227) / Literary studies
The last talented representative of Western Armenian lyrics, Mateos (Trdat) Zarifyan, was born on January 17, 1894 in the suburb of Constantinople, Ketik Pasha. In 1913, he graduated from the Perper College, receiving a diploma in art history. From 1914 onwards, he worked as a teacher at the same college. After the outbreak of the First World War, he was drafted into the Turkish army. Protesting against the harsh conditions of the life in barracks, not wanting to serve in the enemy army, he maked several attempts to escape and was sentenced to exile by a military tribunal. Thanks to the petition of his friends, the sentence was replaced by imprisonment and hard labor, and subsequently, he worked as an orderly in a military hospital. In 1919, he worked as a translator at the British military mission, and then at the Perper College as a teacher of English and Physical Education. In 1921, the poet's health deteriorated sharply and he and his parents moved to the island of Prinkipo in the Marmara Sea. On April 9, 1924, Zarifyan died.
David Gasparyan - Aksel Bakunts: a victim of political violence (1936–1937)
19 Pages | 78-97 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2024.3-78 | Published in: 2024 N 3 (227) / Literary studies
The prominent novelist Aksel Bakunts (1899–1937) was criticized as a “nationalist” at party meetings and in the literary press as early as 1933. At the height of his creative powers, in addition to being accused of nationalism, terrorism was also attributed to him. The writer was arrested on August 9, 1936. Aksel Bakunts was imprisoned for 11 months. During that time, he was subjected to a severe moral and physical torture. On July 8, 1936, his sentence to the highest punishment, execution by shooting, was carried out in Yerevan.
Zarine Sarajyan - Hamo Sahyan: Literary portrait
18 Pages | 98-116 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2024.3-98 | Published in: 2024 N 3 (227) / Literary studies
Hamo Sahyan (Hmayak Sahaki Grigoryan, 1914–1993) is an outstanding Armenian poet. His first collection of poems, entitled “On the Banks of the Vorotan”, was published in 1946. Later, he published the collections “On the Peak” (1955), “Nairyan Green Poplar” (1958), “Armenia in the Songs” (1962), “Before Sunset” 1964), “Song of the Cliffs” (1968), “Open, Sezam” (1972) etc.
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 | 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.
Syranush Margaryan - Cultural and historical school and its influence on the works of Father Ghevond Alishan and Garegin Srvandztyants
16 Pages | 163-179 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2023.3-163 | Published in: 2023 N 3 (224) / Literary studies
The cultural-historical school as a cultural-philosophical theory is a set of ideas directly related to historical time, geographical environment and race. Having been formed in France in the last decades of the XІX century, it soon became known throughout the European continent and had many followers in different countries (G. Brandes, P. Lacombe, J. Renard, N. Pipin, etc.). Taking into account the intercultural ties that developed during this period, it becomes obvious that Armenian thinkers could not stay away from this pan-European philosophical and cultural movement. This influence is especially clearly noticeable in the scientific and artistic works of two great Armenologists - Father Ghevond Alishan and Garegin Srvandztyants.
Hasmik Hovsepyan - The role of the grammar textbook by Grigor Magistros in the Syunik school
7 Pages | 180-187 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2023.3-180 | Published in: 2023 N 3 (224) / Literary studies
The comparative analysis of the manuscript sources allows us to outline the general path of development of manuscript number 3917 kept in the Matenadaran after M. Mashtots; it contains the “Interpretation of Grammar” by Grigor Magistros (990–1058) and presents the scientific and educational environment in which this grammatical work was spread. As a result of the research, it becomes clear, that the “Interpretation” by Magistros was used in Tatev and Sarkavagants Monasteries. In the 15th century, when the interpretations of Hovhannes Yerznkatsi, Hovhannes Tsortsoretsi, and Vardan Areveltsi were created, Grigor Tatevatsi handed over the original of the “Grammar” by Magistros to his student Archimandrite Hovhannes Karmir from Kapan to circulate in the Sarkavagants Monastery.
Marine Sargsyan - Vahan Teryan: cultural and political figure
30 Pages | 73-103 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2025.1-73 | Published in: 2025 N 1 (228) / Literary studies
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.
Alina Gharibyan - Mythological bases of the character of Khandut in the epic “Sasna Tsrer”
22 Pages | 104-126 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2025.1-104 | Published in: 2025 N 1 (228) / Literary studies
In the epic “Sasna Tsrer” Khandut appears as a heroine endowed with exceptional qualities of heroism, dedication, and self-sacrifice. These features of her character contribute to a more holistic perception of the image of the main hero, David.
The motives related to Khandut are extremely diverse, making her image the most complete and perfect. We analyzed the character of Khandut in the context of episodes and motives associated with her in 94 versions of the epic “Sasna Tsrer”, taking into account the characteristics of three typological groups (Moks, Mush, Sasoun).
Liana Ohanyan - Series of stories by Karine Khodikyan “The Storyteller”
8 Pages | 127-135 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2025.1-127 | Published in: 2025 N 1 (228) / Literary studies
Karine Khodikyan- a prosaic, dramatist, publicist and editor- stands out with her original creative writing in the modern Armenian literature characterized by richness of topics and variety of plots. Her series of stories, entitled “The Storyteller”, presents characters of our contemporaries, in particular of women with their way of life, phsycological state, forms of struggle and opposition to the changing circumstances.
Heriknaz Vorskanyan - Prominent Armenologist Manuk Abeghyan at the origins of the Academic Science
27 Pages | 73-100 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2025.2-73 | Published in: 2025 N 2 (229) / Literary studies
One of the outstanding representatives of the Armenian philology is Manuk Abeghyan (1885–1944), Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Social Sciences, Honored Scientist, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia.
M. Abeghyan's research works were of fundamental importance in several branches of Armenology, i.e. philology, literary studies, linguistics. He laid the foundation for the scientific study of prosody.
Armen Manukyan - Nikol Aghbalyan: Life and Activity
22 Pages | 101-123 | DOI: Doi:10.54503/0135-0536-2025.2-101 | Published in: 2025 N 2 (229) / Literary studies
Nikol Aghbalyan (1875–1947) was one of the outstanding Armenian figures of the late 19th and first half of the 20th centuries, a literary critic, public and political figure, statesman and teacher. His formation as an individual, an Armenian and public figure was greatly influenced by his birthplace (Havlabar quarter in Tiflis), the art of Sayat Nova, Armenian medieval literature, European and Russian literature and critical thought; it should be also mentioned the priceless role of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
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 | 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.
Petros Demirchyan - Thomas Terzyan: an original writer, aesthete, teacher
11 Pages | 83-94 | DOI: DOI: 10.54503/0135-0536-2025.3-83 | Published in: 2025 N 3 (230) / Literary studies
Thomas Terzyan (1840–1909) was one of the prominent figures of the Western Armenian intellectuals of the second half of the 19th century. He received his education at one of the renowned Armenian educational institutions of the time, the Murat-Raphaelian College of the Mekhitarist Order in Venice. Famous teachers Ghevond Alishan and Arsen Bagratuni played a great role in the formation of his personality as a bearer of national and universal values.
Aelita Dolukhanyan - Avetik Isahakyan’s art is addressed to humanity for ages to come
28 Pages | 95-123 | DOI: DOI: 10.54503/0135-0536-2025.3-95 | Published in: 2025 N 3 (230) / Literary studies
From early ages, a famous Armenian poet Avetik Isahakyan (1875–1957) was distinguished by his extraordinary abilities and exceptional desire for knowledge. Being almost a young man, having acquired important knowledge about the centuries-old history of the Armenian people and its literature of the past, he traveled to Europe. With an exactitude characteristic of a genius, he studied world history and literature – East and West.
Anushavan Zakaryan, David Gasparyan - Yeghishe Charents in Arshak Chopanian’s Assessment
12 Pages | 124-136 | DOI: DOI: 10.54503/0135-0536-2025.3-124 | Published in: 2025 N 3 (230) / Literary studies
Arshak Chobanyan (1872–1954) – a writer, literary scholar, critic and a pub¬lisher – was a unique figure in the Armenian literary life. It is worth noting his respect for Charents (1897–1937) and his art. In his numerous reviews and articles published in the journal “Anahit” and in the weekly “Apaga”, Chobanyan highly appreciated Charents as a poet of national and pan-European value emphasizing his poetic innovation, which was reflected in creating innovative characters and forms.
Gor Abrahamyan - The first Republic of Armenia and the issue of the loss of independence in the publicistic writings of Vahan Tekeyan (1918–1922)
20 Pages | 137-157 | DOI: DOI: 10.54503/0135-0536-2025.3-137 | Published in: 2025 N 3 (230) / Literary studies
The perception and interpretation of the First Republic of Armenia in the publicistic writings of Vahan Tekeyan (1878–1945), an outstanding Western Armenian and later Diaspora writer, publicist, socio-political figure, and a prominent representative of the Armenian liberal-democratic political movement, are examined in the context of the Armenian Question, the restoration of national statehood, and subsequently the loss of sovereignty.
Aelita Dolukhanyan - Significance of Saint-Martin’s Valuable Legacy in Armenian Studies
17 Pages | 49-66 | DOI: 10.54503/0135-0536-2026.1-49 | Published in: 2026 N 1(231) / Literary studies
A.-J. Saint-Martin (1791–1832) is the founder of not only French but also European scientific Armenian studies. The two volumes of the monumental work “Mémoires historiques et géographiques sur l’Arménie”, published in 1818 and 1819, compelled European Orientalists to turn their attention to Armenia – to the rich literature and history of the country that was the first in the East to adopt Christianity at the state level. Knowledge of the history and literature of Armenia presented a universal value.