ACADEMICIAN HANRI NERSISYAN PHOTO EXHIBITION TO BE HELD IN FOLK ART MUSEUM

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
17.02.2010 15:17 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Hanri Nersisyan, Academician of National Academy of
Sciences of RA (NAS RA), will open his exhibition "World of Tumanyan,
Dsegh village, people and nature" in Folk Art museum on February 19.

According to EcoLur, the exhibition is dated to the 141st birth
anniversary of the great Armenian writer. The exhibition organized
by Lorva Dzor compatriotic union will be held up to February 25.

Hovhannes Tumanyan, great Armenian writer was born in 1869, village
of Dsegh in the Province of Lori, Armenia.

Tumanyan began his education in Lori, and then attended one of the
best Armenian schools of the time, the Nersisyan School from which he,
unfortunately, had to leave when his father took ill and died. At
age 16, two years before graduation, he ended his formal education
and returned to Dsegh to care for his family. At age 19 Tumanyan
married and eventually fathered ten children. He started to write in
mid 1880s and cooperated to Armenian newspapers and magazines. But
he became known as a poet in 1890, when his first poetry collection
was published.

In 1899 he established "Vernatun" ("Mansard") literary society,
by involving well-known Armenian writers. In 1912-1921 he was the
chairman of the Armenian Writers’ Caucasian Society as well as acted
as a head of "Aid to Armenia" Committee (1921-1922). Hovhannes Tumanyan
died in 1923, Moscow.

Hanri Nersisyan is PhD in physics and mathematics, Academician and
Director of Fundamental Science Library of NAS RA.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress