ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԻ ՊԱՏՄՈՒԹՅԱՆ ԹԱՆԳԱՐԱՆՈՒՄ ՊԱՀՎՈՂ ԳԱՐԵԳԻՆ ՆԺԴԵՀԻ ՀԱՎԱՔԱԾՈՒՆ / COLLECTION OF GAREGIN NZHDEH KEPT IN THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF ARMENIA

Abstract

The name of the great son of the Armenian people, Garegin Nzhdeh, is associated with heroic and tragic pages, connected together, a fair assessment of which can only be given by history, giving a worthy place among universal values. The collection kept in the History Museum of Armenia (HMA) partially contains the coverage of these pages. For the first time in 1996, HMA acquired the last religions of the great hero left in the Vladimir prison with the grandson of Nzhdeh's brother, Vazgen Ter - Harutyunyan, which are now stored in the museum. We received the second collection from the RA government. This collection was sent from Bulgaria, from where the consul in Sofia Artur Madoyan handed over the collected materials about Nzhdeh to the RA government. This collection contains about 73 documents and rare photographs. It is no secret that today more is said and written about G. Nzhdeh (Garegin Ter-Harutyunyan) as a military and political figure with Armenian origins, the organizer of the self-defense of Zangezur and Gokhtan, the leader of Lernaayastan, but few information was kept about the further stage his life and biography, especially about the years he spent in Bulgaria and his activities during these years. The study of materials, especially the long-term correspondence between poets, writers, public and political figures in Bulgaria and G. Nzhdeh, Nzhdeh's letters, notes, memoirs, photographs, Nzhde's publicist works in the “Razmik”, “Araks”, “Yerevan” periodicals give us an opportunity to present in a new way the unknown pages of the activity of the statesman-political figure, writer and philosopher G. Nzhdeh.