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Hovhannes Tumanyan

Died in 1923

Hovhannes Tumanyan was born in 1869 in Dsegh, in Lori, the son of a priest, and left school early for lack of money. Settled in Tiflis from 1883, he brought together the writers of his generation at his home and from 1912 to 1921 presided over the society of Armenian writers of the Caucasus. In 1915, he organised relief for the refugees fleeing the massacres in the Ottoman Empire. A translator of Pushkin and Byron, he died in Moscow in 1923, where he was being treated.

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