Stepanos Tohattsi ( armenian Ստենանոս Թոխաթցի ) is an Armenian poet, scribe, teacher and church figure of the 16th century [1] [2] [3] [4] .
| Stepanos Tohatzi | |
|---|---|
| Եփանոս Թոխաթցի | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Tohat |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Tohat |
| Occupation | poet, scribe |
| Genre | crying , satire , panegyric , gandz |
| Language of Works | Armenian |
Life and creativity
Born in the city of Tohat in 1558. In 1580 he became a priest, in 1589 he made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem . During the capture of Tohat during the uprising, Jalali in 1602 was captured. The rebels initially wanted to execute him, but then they beat him and left him to die [5] . Miraculously saved Stepanos fled to Constantinople , then to the Crimea (in 1603 to Kafu , from 1604 to Surkhat ), where he taught at the monastery of Surb Khach [6] [5] [7] . In 1621 he returned to Tohat, where he died around 1630.
He left a rich literary heritage, numerous poems of various genres - crying , satirical poems , panegyrics , ganza , etc. Many poems have important historical significance, they reflect political events in the Ottoman Empire, the situation of the Armenian people under the Turkish yoke, various aspects of the life of Armenians of Tokhat and Crimea [7] [2] [8] . Of the poems of Stepanos, it is worth noting “Crying to the great city of Evdokia ” ( Armenian “Ողբ ի վերա Եվդոկիա մեծի քաղաքին” ), which describes in detail the destruction of the once prosperous city, the satirical poem “Praise to the priests of Kafa” ( Armenian “Գովասաաիցւթիւննն վերա ” ), in which the author ridicules the vicious behavior of some Armenian priests of Theodosius, and the verse“ Complaint about fleas and flies ”( Armenian. Գանկատս ի լվաննուն և ճանճերուն ) devoted to social issues. Due to the accessible style and spoken language of writing, Stepanos's poems quickly gained popularity among the Armenian population of Crimea [3] . He was also famous as a scribe and teacher, taught in Tohat and Surkhat. He copied and restored a large number of manuscripts stored today in Venice , Jerusalem , Matenadaran , etc. [7]
- Editions of essays and biographical essays
- Five wanderers: Bishop Vrtanes Srnececi; scribe Minas Tohateci; Priest Stepanos Tohatesi; Priest Hakob Tohateci; Bishop Lazarus Tohatetsi. Biographical information and essays = Հինգ պանդուխտ տաղասացներ: Վրթանէս եպիսկոպոս Սռնկեցի; Մինաս դպիր Թոխաթեցի; Ստեփանոս երէց Թոխաթեցի; Յակոբ երէց Թոխաթեցի; Ղազար եպիսկոպոս Թոխաթեցի. Կենսագրական տեղեկութիւններ եւ բնագիրներ / comp. Akinyan N. A. .. - Vienna : Mkhitarist publishing house, 1921. - P. 117-137. - 224 s.
- Crimean Armenian poets of the 15th – 20th centuries .. - Simferopol , 2008. - P. 50–62. - 240 s.
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Notes
- ↑ Tatyana Shushara. Formation and development of the education of Armenians in the Tauride province in the 19th — early 20th centuries // Գիտական Կյանք. - YSU Publishing House, 2007. - P. 73-79 .
- ↑ 1 2 Mikaelyan V.A. Tahasats // On Crimean Land: The History of Armenian Settlements in Crimea . - Er. publishing house = Hayastan, 1974. - S. 123. - 208 p.
- ↑ 1 2 Five wanderers / comp. Akinyan N.A. - Vienna , 1921 .-- S. 117-137. - 224 s.
- ↑ Mogarichev Yu.M., Sazanov A.V., Sargsyan T.E., Sorochan S. B., Shaposhnikov A.K. Lives of the bishops of Kherson in the context of the history of Tauric Chersonesos . - Narteks. Byzantina Ukrainensis. - Kharkov: Antikva, 2012 .-- S. 102. - 416 p. - ISBN 978–617–562–006–9.
- ↑ 1 2 Kevork B. Bardakjian. A Reference Guide to Modern Armenian Literature, 1500-1920: With an Introductory History. - Wayne State University Press, 2000 .-- 714 p. - ISBN 978-0-81432-747-0 .
- ↑ Parunova Yu.D. The Church as a Factor in Preserving the Ethnocultural Identity of the Armenian Community in Crimea // Culture of the Black Sea Peoples. - 2001. - № 22 . - pp . 115-119 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Stepanos Tohatzi = Ստեփանոս Թոխաթցի. - Yer. : Armenian Encyclopedia, 1985 .-- T. 11 . - S. 135 .
- ↑ Tatevik Sargsyan. Zamosc in Armenian commemorative records of 1600-1657 // Aniv. - 2011. - № 1 (34) .