Sero Khanzadyan
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Sero Nikolai Khanzadyan was an Armenia
n writer.
Little Sero’s parents used to tell him "You will learn the value of the land once you grow up". Many times he had noticed how people, returning from work in the field, would keep the pieces of ground stuck to their clothes and shake it off on a naked rock in front of their houses. "The land is the dearest thing that we have. Without the land there is no nation" – would be the words said by the characters of his novels.
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“Unrealized death is death, but the realized death is the eternity!” This ancient Armenian saying, runs as the primary theme in Khanzadyan’s work, as his heroes, Armenians, fight shoulder to shoulder to Russians, Ukrainians and other nationalities to protect their motherland. "The Land" (vol. 1-2, 1954–55, published in Russian in 1956-57) novel tells the story of villagers in post-war period.
Khanzadyan often recalls the long history of strong Armenian and Russian relations that have evolved over the centuries.Later on he would use this idea in his “Mkhitar Sparapet” (1961) and other works. Khanzadyan in one of his interviews mentioned that the work on a story about Mkhitar Sparapet and David Bek, the great defenders of the Armenian nation of the early 18th century, had begun while he was still at the war. In “Mkhitar Sparapet,” as elsewhere, the idea of the strong friendship between the Armenian and Russian people is in the center of the story. The work "Horovel" is a hymn to the strong will of a peasant, stubbornly following the plough despite the pain and thirst.
Besides the war, Sero Khanzadyan writes about, as has already been mentioned, Armenian history and specifically one of its darkest pages, the Armenian Genocide
of 1915. One of his best novels “Six nights” is about that.
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
n writer.
Childhood
Sero Khanzadyan was born in 1915 to the family of a ploughman in the town of Goris which is located in the rough mountains of Zangezur, where every bit of fertile ground is taken in a battle against solid rocks and burning sun.Little Sero’s parents used to tell him "You will learn the value of the land once you grow up". Many times he had noticed how people, returning from work in the field, would keep the pieces of ground stuck to their clothes and shake it off on a naked rock in front of their houses. "The land is the dearest thing that we have. Without the land there is no nation" – would be the words said by the characters of his novels.
Life & Works
Upon his graduation from the pedagogical college the young man worked as a schoolteacher. At the age of 18 Khanzadyan voluntarily joined the Red Army and participated in the World War Two rising to the rank of the Commander of a mortar company. His personal combat experience and ability to derive general conclusions helped him to create “The Battle Diary” (“Three Years: 291 Days”). The novel, written in 1972, was one of the most prominent works in the Soviet military fiction literature at the time. In 1950 he published his first novel, dedicated to the defencion of LeningradLeningrad
Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province...
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“Unrealized death is death, but the realized death is the eternity!” This ancient Armenian saying, runs as the primary theme in Khanzadyan’s work, as his heroes, Armenians, fight shoulder to shoulder to Russians, Ukrainians and other nationalities to protect their motherland. "The Land" (vol. 1-2, 1954–55, published in Russian in 1956-57) novel tells the story of villagers in post-war period.
Khanzadyan often recalls the long history of strong Armenian and Russian relations that have evolved over the centuries.Later on he would use this idea in his “Mkhitar Sparapet” (1961) and other works. Khanzadyan in one of his interviews mentioned that the work on a story about Mkhitar Sparapet and David Bek, the great defenders of the Armenian nation of the early 18th century, had begun while he was still at the war. In “Mkhitar Sparapet,” as elsewhere, the idea of the strong friendship between the Armenian and Russian people is in the center of the story. The work "Horovel" is a hymn to the strong will of a peasant, stubbornly following the plough despite the pain and thirst.
Besides the war, Sero Khanzadyan writes about, as has already been mentioned, Armenian history and specifically one of its darkest pages, the Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, as the Great Crime—refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I...
of 1915. One of his best novels “Six nights” is about that.