1. Hovhannes Tumanyan's works were mostly written in the style of realism, frequently revolving around the everyday life of his time.
19 Facts About Hovhannes Tumanyan
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Hovhannes Tumanyan soon became known to the wide Armenian society for his simple but very poetic works.
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Hovhannes Tumanyan was born on February 19,1869, in the village of Dsegh, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire.
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Hovhannes Tumanyan was an offspring of an Armenian princely family of Tumanyan, branch of the famous royal house of Mamikonian that settled in Lori in 10th and 11th centuries from their original feudal fief of Taron.
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Hovhannes Tumanyan's mother, Sona, was an avid storyteller with a particular interest in fables.
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Young Hovhannes Tumanyan was the oldest of eight children; his siblings were Rostom, Osan, Iskuhi, Vahan, Astghik, Arshavir, Artashes.
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From 1877 to 1879, Hovhannes Tumanyan attended the parochial school of Dsegh.
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Hovhannes Tumanyan moved to Tiflis in 1883, where he attended the Nersisyan School from 1883 to 1887.
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Hovhannes Tumanyan's wrote his first poem at the age of 12, while studying in Jalaloghly school.
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Hovhannes Tumanyan lived at the teacher's house for a while and fell in love with the teacher's daughter Vergine.
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Since 1893, Hovhannes Tumanyan worked for Aghbyur, Murtch, Hasker and Horizon periodicals and was engaged in public activism.
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In 1899, Hovhannes Tumanyan came up with an idea of organizing meetings of Armenian intellectuals of the time at his house on 44 Bebutov Street in Tiflis.
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In 1912 Hovhannes Tumanyan was elected the president of the Company of Caucasus Armenian Writers.
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Hovhannes Tumanyan was transferred to a hospital in Moscow, where he died on March 23,1923.
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In 1888, at the age of 19, Hovhannes Tumanyan married Olga Matchkalyan, age 17.
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In October 1914 Hovhannes Tumanyan joined the "Committee for Support of War Victims", which later helped Armenian Genocide refugees settled in Etchmiadzin.
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Hovhannes Tumanyan is usually regarded in Armenian circles as "All-Armenian poet".
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Hovhannes Tumanyan earned this title when the Catholicos of Armenia had ordered that Armenian refugees from the west not enter certain areas of his church and house, since he is considered to be "The Catholicos of all Armenians".
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Hovhannes Tumanyan created lyrics, fables, epic poems and translations into Armenian of Byron, Goethe and Pushkin.