Alexander Tsaturyan (; March 28, 1865, in Zakatala – March 31, 1917, in

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) was an

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n poet and translator.

Biography

Alexander Tsaturyan was born in Zakatala on April 11, 1865. He came from a poor family and received his education at a local church-parish school and a three-year district school. Later in life, he moved to Moscow and spent most of his life there. Tsaturyan started writing at a young age and was first published in 1885. His first collection of poems was released in 1891. In addition to his original works, Tsaturyan was also a translator of Russian and European poets, publishing two volumes of poetic translations titled “Russian Poets” in 1905. Tsaturyan alexandr

Works

Tsaturyan depicted the labor, suffering and dreams of his

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(cycle “From Songs of Suffering”, 1893), the struggle of workers against oppressors (“Lullaby of a Worker”, 1910). In the collection of

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poems “Jokes of the Pen” (1901), Tsaturyan ridiculed the vices of the rich and churchmen. Many of Tsaturyan’s poems became

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. He died on March 31, 1917, in Tbilisi and was buried in

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at the

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Pantheon.

References

Alexander Tsaturyan's biography
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