Shushanik Kurginyan (nee Popolyan ; August 18 (30), 1876 , Alexandropol - November 24, 1927 , Yerevan ) is an Armenian poetess . One of the founders of Armenian feminist and proletarian literature [1] .
| Shushanik Kurginyan | |
|---|---|
| arm Շուշանիկ Կուրղինյան | |
| Date of Birth | August 18 (30), 1876 |
| Place of Birth | Alexandropol |
| Date of death | November 24, 1927 (51 years old) |
| Place of death | Yerevan |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire  the USSR |
| Occupation | poetess |
| Language of Works | Armenian |
Content
Biography
Shushanik Popolyan was born on August 18 (30), 1876 in Alexandropol (now Gyumri ) in the family of a craftsman [2] . She attended elementary school for girls at a local monastery, studied at a Russian gymnasium. At 21, she married Arshak Kurginyan, who worked in her father’s shop [3] . In 1903, with her husband, she moved to Nakhichevan-on-Don , where Arshak opened his own store [3] . With great enthusiasm she met the revolution of 1905 , supported the struggle of the working class [2] .
In 1920 she moved to Vladikavkaz , founded there the Armenian Workers Club named after S. Shaumyan. In 1921 she returned to her native Alexandropol. In 1925, due to health problems, she was undergoing treatment in Kharkov and Moscow . However, the treatment did not bring significant results, and she returned home. In 1926, after the earthquake in Alexandropol, she moved to Yerevan . November 24, 1927 died after a serious illness [2] [3] . She was buried in the Pantheon named Komitas .
The poet Avetik Isahakyan spoke of her like this: “ there was something mysterious in Shushanik - a real Sibylla, a sorceress, a prophetess: tall, thin, nervous, with a phosphoric shine in her eyes, completely far from family concerns ” [3] .
Creativity
It began to be published in 1899 in the journal Taraz (Fashion, No. 30) [4] . During the revolution of 1905-1907, she wrote many works praising the struggle of the proletariat ("The Peal of Freedom", "Boldly Forward", "Workers", "Go There," "Song of the Worker" and others) [5] . After the defeat of the revolution, she wrote a number of works against reaction and decadence, glorifying the revolutionaries (“On the Mass Grave”, “Before the Prison”, “Red Procession”) [2] . Resko spoke out against autocracy (“Let a bonfire burn under a bloody throne”) [4] . In the work “Remove Your Cross”, she opposed religion as the pillars of power [5] . In the work “Unite We, too,” called for the emancipation of women [2] . Some verses of Kurginyan are imbued with moods of love and homesickness (“From Autumn Songs”, “No Alagyaz”) [5] .
Soviet sources provide different opinions about the attitude of the Kurginyans to the October Revolution of 1917. The literary encyclopedia (1931) claims that she did not accept this revolution, and therefore in the post-October period she wrote relatively little [5] . At the same time, the Brief Literary Encyclopedia (1966) claims that in the 1920s she wrote a number of works praising the achievements of the October Revolution [4] .
Compositions
In Russian translation
- Anthology of Armenian poetry, M., 1940.
In Armenian
- Կուրղինյան Շ., Արշալույսի ղողանջները, Նոր-Նախիջևան, 1907.
- Երկերի ժողովածու, Երևան, 1947։
Notes
- ↑ Victoria Rowe, A History of Armenian Women's Writing, 1880-1922 (London: Cambridge Scholars, 2003), page 170. ISBN 1-904303-23-4 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Kurginyan Shushanik // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Avetik Isahakyan . Shushanik Kurginyan . armenianhouse.org. Date of treatment November 15, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Kurginyan // Brief literary encyclopedia . T. 3. - 1966.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Kurginyan // Literary Encyclopedia : 11 vol. - [ M. ], 1929-1939.
Literature
- History of Armenian Soviet Literature, M., 1966
- Ղազարյան Հովհ., Շուշանիկ Կուրղինյան, Երևան, 1955