Regina Tadevosi Ghazaryan ( hy, Ռեգինա Թադևոսի Ղազարյան; April 17, 1915 in

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– November 6, 1999 in

) was an

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n painter and public figure. Known as a friend and benefactor of

Yeghishe Charents Yeghishe Charents (; March 13, 1897 – November 27, 1937) was an Armenian poet, writer and public activist. Charents' literary subject matter ranged from his experiences in the First World War, socialist revolution, and frequently Armenia an ...

, she is credited with saving many of the poet's manuscripts during the regime of

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Biography

Regina Ghazaryan was born in a family of an

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survivor from Van and a noble mother from Yerevan (Khorasanyans). She met the poet Yeghishe Charents in 1930. At the age of fifteen, Ghazaryan, an orphan, had "in some sort been adopted by Charents as both an intimate friend and a witness to his solitary hours". In 1937, from the prison cell Charents had secretly informed his wife Izabella that she should trust all of his writings only to a family friend, artist Regina Ghazaryan and she will save them from being destroyed. After Charents's death Regina Ghazaryan hid and preserved many of his manuscripts (7000 lines in total including "Requiem to Komitas", "The Nameless", "Songs of Autumn" and "Navzike") in the garden. As a military pilot she participated in

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. She finished Yerevan Fine Arts Institute in 1951. On 11 March 1954, Anastas Mikoyan called for the rehabilitation of Charents in a speech in Yerevan. The speech inspired Ghazaryan to remove Charents's manuscripts from hiding. She granted them to the Charents Museum of Literature and Arts. In 2009 a memorial plaque was inaugurated on the house at Baghramyan St. 33a, Yerevan where Regina Ghazaryan lived and worked from 1961 to 1999. Ghazaryan's paintings are exhibited in various museums of Armenia, including the

National Gallery of Armenia The National Gallery of Armenia ( hy, Հայաստանի ազգային պատկերասրահ, ''Hayastani azgayin patkerasrah'') is the largest art museum in Armenia. Located on Yerevan's Republic Square, the museum has one of the most prominent ...

. She was a member of the Painters' Union of Armenia.

Awards

* ''Honorary citizen of Yerevan'' (1995) * ''Renowned painter of Armenia'' (1985)

Works

* ''Charents'' (1966) * ''Aghavnadzor'' (1965) * ''Komitas'' (1969) * ''Aspetakan'' (1975) * ''Paruyr Sevak'' * ''Khaghagh tiezerk''Armenian concise encyclopedia, Vol. III, ''Ghazaryan Regina''

Personal exhibitions

* Yerevan (1967, 1987, 1988) *

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(1967) *

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(1967)

Books

* ''Charentsyan Nshkharner'' by Regina Ghazaryan (1998)

Publications

* Regina Ghazaryan, "Reminiscences about Charents" usher Charentsi masin Garun. Erevan, #1. 1987, pp. 67–75

References

External links

Memorial plaque to Regina Ghazaryan, who saved Charents' manuscripts, inaugurated in Yerevan

Биография

Вечно с Чаренцом // Республика Армения, 2009

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