EXHIBITION ON RUSSIAN-ARMENIAN CULTURAL TIES TO OPEN IN MOSCOW
PanARMENIAN.Net
25.10.2006 15:30 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ October 26 within the Year of Armenia in Russia an
exhibition titled Dialogue of Two Cultures: Russian-Armenian Cultural
Ties in 19-20th Centuries will open in the Polytechnic Museum.
According to the Press Office of the Armenian Embassy in Russia,
the exhibition is held in the two capitals – Yerevan (opening was
October 5) and then Moscow – with an interval of three weeks. The
exhibition will feature documented materials of eminent writers,
artists, actors, film directors, scholars and public figures: Ivan
(Hovhannes) Ayvazovsky, Constantine Halabyan, Victor Hambardzumyan,
Eduard Asadov, Arno Babajanyan, Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Armen Jigarkhanyan,
Zara Dolukhanova, Leonid Yengibarov, Komitas, Lev Kulijanov, Sergey
Parajanov, Martiros Saryan, Aram Khachaturyan and others.
The exposition includes over 100 items, among which are ancient
lithographs, autographs of literature works and notes, sketches,
portraits of writers, artists and musicians, memorial items, biographic
documents, materials on the history of the Armenian Church in Russia
and others.
The National Archive of Armenia, Russian State Archive of Literature
and Art, Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, Russian State Archive
of Cinema and Photo Documents, reports the Yerkramas, the newspaper
of Armenians of Russia.