The bust of renowned Armenian writer Hagop Baronian will be erected in Istanbul. The solemn ceremony will be held on October 5, Akunq.net reports.
The bust will be installed at the Armenian cemetery in Sisli district. The ceremony will be attended by Armenian Patriarch’s Locum Tenens, Sahak Mashalian Sahak Mashalyan.
Hagop Baronian was an influential Armenian
writer, satirist, educator, and social figure in the 19th century. Born in
Edirne, Paronian is widely acknowledged as the greatest Armenian satirist of all
time.
Baronian’s most
famous work was the novel “Honorable Beggars,” which parodies the almost
beggar-like state of writers and publishers in that period.
The writer himself suffered the same fate as the characters in “Honorable Beggars,” and died penniless on the streets of Istanbul.
He was buried in an Armenian cemetery in Istanbul, but the precise location of his grave has been lost.
The Yerevan State
Musical Comedy Theatre was named after Hagop Baronian
