Страницы дружбы Сергея Городецкого с семьей Ованеса Туманяна (на материале документов Ереванского Музея литературы и искусства им. Е. Чаренца и семейного архива Нвард Туманян)
Pages of friendship of Sergey Gorodetskii with Hovhannes Tumanyan’s family (based on the documents of the Yerevan Museum of Literature and Art named after Y. Charents and the family archive of Nvard Tumanyan)

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the little-studied pages of friendship between the prominent Russian poet and translator Sergei Gorodetsky and the family of the great Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan. The Russian poet was especially close to Tumanyan’s son Artavazd and the poet’s daughter Nvard, with whom he was brought together by common interests, coincidence of tastes and appreciations in art and literature. This friendship began during the First World War, when Sergei Gorodetsky and Artavazd Tumanyan worked together to save Armenian orphans in bleeding Western Armenia. Gorodetsky’s friendship with the Tumanyan family continued even after the tragic death of Artavazd and the death of the poet — already in the form of friendship and correspondence between the Russian translator and Tumanyan’s daughter Nvard, who throughout her earthly life maintained warm, friendly relations with all her father's close friends. The long-term friendship between Sergey Gorodetsky and Nvard Tumanyan is of particular importance for contemporary literary criticism and Tumanyan studies.

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