Individuals who left their creative traces in the pages of history. Outstanding figures of Armenian and foreign culture, science, spiritual and public life, their life and activity in the format of TV encyclopedia.
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Leonard Bernstein“The only power that forces me to make music is the happiness of dealing with people, as I love people as much as I love music, if not more”. Life and creative path of conductor, composer, pedagogue Leonard Berstein in the format of encyclopedia. |
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Ruben SevakIn 1915, a young Armenian doctor in Cankiri healed the daughter of a rich and influential Turk. In return, the Turk moved by gratitude, tried to convince the Armenian doctor to adopt Islam and save his life from sure death. However, the doctor didn’t think twice to refuse saying that conversion from one religion into another is betraying your nation.
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Francisco GoyaHe lived in the period of time which was a turning point for Spain to become the eyewittness of luxurious masquerades and horrible wars. He had the kings and toreadors, Courtesan and princesses, poets and ministers in front of his perspicacious eye. His art largely predetermined and ordained the developments of 19th century painting.
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Gurgen MahariLife and activities of Gurgen Mahari in the format of TV encyclopedia.
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Komitas VardapetMany in his native town knew this skinny, thin and pale boy. “Little wandering singer”; this was how they called this wise and kind boy in worn-out clothes often seen asleep on the cold stones of laundry. The wandere was young Solomon, years later to be known as Komitas Vardapet.
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Antonio GaudiOn July 2003, the Vatican Council was discussing the issue of canonizing Antonio Gaudi. People assured that on his funeral day even the city walls were crying, while the towers bowed their heads…
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Claude Monet“After all, he’s just a mere eye. But oh, God, what an eye…”, - exclaimed once Cezanne referring to this painter. This was that very eye which could feel, see and make even the sunlight tangible. Painter of the Sun – this was how the founder and its last representative was labeled eventually.
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Gustav MahlerHe was tortured knowing that he is the end of the line, the final point of the great symphonic arch, that began with Haydn and Mozart. It was his destiny to sum up the whole story of Austro-German music, and tie it up in a fearful knot made out of his own nerves and sinews. Life and creative path of composer, conductor Gustav Mahler in the format of encyclopedia. |
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Iosif BrodskyYear 1964. 24 years old poet stood in the Soviet Court. The conviction – loitering. He was arrested while walking carelessly in the streets. However, the young man was also charged with another verdict – degradation of younger generation by dissemination of such author’s work as Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetayeva. The name of the defendant was Iosif Brodsky, one of the greatest figures of Russian literature of XX century. |
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Boris PiotrovskyIn early 1920-ies, in Bolshevik Petersburg, at the specialist of Egypt, Natalya Flittner, a group of young men were admiringly discussing the most recent sensational discoveries in archaeology. The nearly untouched tumb of Tutankhamun was found in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. None of the young men could ever think that in about two decades it would be them to clean the dust off the history to bring the world to the knowledge of yet another culture, no less old than that of the Egyptian – the culture of Urartu. That young man was Boris Pietrovsky, twelveth director of Hermitage. |
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Mher Mkrtchyan“I always wonder what that power is that goes from here and turns into a water in man’s eyes. Dear me! I never wanted to become an actor. Yet, step by step, my holy hour came too, dragging me to the theatre, and I never managed to have a childhood.” |
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Hamo SahyanOnce the poet was asked why didn’t he write memoirs, he answered: “When I was still a child, my father would put me on the donkey and send me to bring apples. Once as I was coming down a hill, I saw that the saddlebag tore and all the apples scattered on the ground. The memories are likewise, once on the floor, you can’t go back and collect them”. |