Ashot Bagdasarovich Grashi

Background

Ashot Bagdasarovich Grashi was born on May 9, 1910. From the family of the worker.

Career

Published since 1929. The author of many collections of poems, including (in Russian translation) "The mountains sing (Moscow, 1946),"Soldiers of Peace" (Yerevan, 1952),"Poems" (Moscow, 1960). He translated works of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov, Taras Shevchenko and other writers and poets into Armenian. Grashi repeatedly visited Voronezh (the last time - in May 1969, when he met with P.A. Borozdina). Voronezh motives are present in a number of lyrical poems by Grashi ("Voronezh apple-trees" and others). Voronezh V. Gordeichev, V. Pankratov, L. Koskov, V. Isayants and others translated works of Grashi into Russian.

Membership

• Writers' Union of the USSR