Konstantin Nikolayevich Derzhavin (, in

Batumi Batumi (; ka, ბათუმი ), historically Batum or Batoum, is the List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), second-largest city of Georgia (country), Georgia and the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, located on the coast ...

– 2 November 1956 in

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) was a Russian Soviet literary and theater critic, translator, and writer.Державин Константин Николаевич
from the

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3rd Edition He wrote the libretto to

Aram Khachaturian Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (; 1 May 1978) was a Soviet Armenians, Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Music of the Soviet Union#Classical music of the Soviet Union, Soviet composers. Khachaturian was born and rai ...

's ballet '' Gayane''. His wife was the ballerina Nina Aleksandrovna Anisimova.

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