Suren Spandaryan
Suren Spandaryan | |
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Born | 1882 |
Died | 1916 (aged 33–34) Krasnoyarsk, Russian Empire |
Nationality | Armenian |
Occupation | literature critic, publicist and Bolshevik |
Suren Spandari Spandaryan (Armenian: Սուրեն Սպանդարի Սպանդարյան; 1882 in Tiflis – 1916 in Krasnoyarsk) was an Armenian revolutionary, literatary critic, publicist and one of the founders of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. In January 1912, he was elected to the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks at the Prague Conference.[1] In March of the same year, Spandaryan was arrested in Baku. Lenin, who considered Spandaryan a "very valuable and prominent worker"[2] supported Spandaryan's father financially after the arrest, since the latter at that time lived in Paris without any means.[3] Spandaryan was sentenced to lifelong exile to Siberia, where he died four years later.[4]
Honors[]
There is a statue of him in Yerevan. The towns of Spandaryan, Shirak, Spandaryan, Syunik and Surenavan are named after him.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (BOLSHEVIKS), Chapter 5, by J.V. Stalin
- ^ Collected Works, Filth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 52. V.I. Lenin, memo to V.M. MOLOTOV FOR THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C. SECRETARIAT
- ^ Lenin Miscellany XIII, V.I. Lenin, letter to V. A. TER-IOANNISYAN, 5 May 1912
- ^ Spandaryan, Suren Spandarovich
- 1881 births
- 1916 deaths
- Writers from Tbilisi
- People from Tiflis Governorate
- Georgian people of Armenian descent
- Old Bolsheviks
- Armenian literary critics
- Armenian male writers
- Armenian writer stubs