2. ABOUT VAHAN TERYAN
The document, received from the seminary, dated June 2, has been saved: “As
your turn has come, I have got the honor to request respectfully regarding the
arrival at the Seminary on the 12th of August of current year your son, Vahan
Ter-Grigoryan ... to take the exams ...”
The Lazarian Institute archive document states: "Scholarship holder of the
Armenian churches Vahan Ter-Grigoryan. Born on the 28th of January, 1885 has
entered the third class on the 14th of August, 1899”. In order to obtain a reference
on variola Ter-Sukias took 7 years old Vahan to Akhalkalak in 1892. Here Teryan
first saw the trees. On 9th of February the 11th child Vahan was born in big
family of the village priest Sukias Ter-Grigoryan in Gandza, Akhalkalak district of
Javakhk. The child was the future poet Vahan Teryan.
3. ABOUT VAHAN TERYAN
Vahan Teryan was born in the Gandza village of Javakheti region of Georgia.
Schooled in Tiflis, he then studied at the Lazarian College in Moscow, where he
was exposed to symbolism and joined the Russian Social Democrats. He was jailed
by Czarist police for his political activity. He is mostly known for his poems
dedicated to autumn and love. That's why Teryan is known as "Singer of Autumn"
in Literature. He published his first book of poems, "Dreams at Dusk", in 1908,
which made him an immediate sensation, Hovhannes Tumanyan calling him the
most original lyric poet of his age. Vahan Teryan died at January 7, 1920. His
poems are filled with images of rain, mist, pallid fields and shapeless shadows,
symbols of sorrow, despair and eventually, peace. In 1916, Vahan Teryan
published a collection of poems entitled Land of Nairi, in which he uses Nairi in
place of Armenia.
