Alexander Tsaturyan
Born	(1865-03-28)March 28, 1865 Zakatala, Zakatali Okrug, Russian Empire
Died	March 17, 1917(1917-03-17) (aged 51) Tiflis,
Nationality	Armenian
Occupation(s)	poet and translator

Alexander Tsaturyan (Armenian: Ալեքսանդր Ծատուրյան, March 28, 1865 in Zakatala – March 31, 1917 in Tiflis) was an Armenian poet and translator.

Biography

Alexander Tsaturyan was born in Zakatala on April 11, 1865. He came from a poor family and received his education at a local church-parish school and a three-year district school. Later in life, he moved to Moscow and spent most of his life there. Tsaturyan started writing at a young age and was first published in 1885. His first collection of poems was released in 1891.^[1]

In addition to his original works, Tsaturyan was also a translator of Russian and European poets, publishing two volumes of poetic translations titled “Russian Poets” in 1905.^[1]

Portrait of Alexander Tsaturyan

Works

Tsaturyan depicted the labor, suffering and dreams of his native people (cycle “From Songs of Suffering”, 1893), the struggle of workers against oppressors (“Lullaby of a Worker”, 1910). In the collection of satirical poems “Jokes of the Pen” (1901), Tsaturyan ridiculed the vices of the rich and churchmen.^[2] Many of Tsaturyan’s poems became folk songs. He died on March 31, 1917, in Tbilisi and was buried in Tbilisi at the Khojivank Pantheon.^[3]

References

• Alexander Tsaturyan's biography Archived 2021-05-09 at the Wayback Machine