SERGEY GORODETSKY, AN APOLOGIST OF APPRECIATION AND POPULATIZATION OF ARMENIAN FINE ARTS (On the occasion of the 140th birthday)
The famous Russian poet, writer, publicist, translator and public figure Sergey Gorodetsky’s (1884-1967) pro-Armenian literary-cultural, social-political activities during the First World War and the years following is largely connected with Western Armenia and Transcaucasia . A witness of the tragic events suffered by the Armenians in Western Armenia, settling in Tiflis in early 1917, he started working at the city’s conservatory, conducting aesthetic courses and at the same time working in the newspaper “The Caucasian Word”, where a special section “Art and Literature” was opened on July 7, 1917. Articles, reviews, essays, related to art and literature issues, were published in that section title every week, largely owing to the efforts of S. Gorodetsky, who coordinated the works of that section. Soon, however, an interesting psychological phenomenon appears. His skills in the field of painting and poetry, finally, started to dominate in his life and he carried out useful activities in parallel to the publishing ones, starting with painting first. It is known that the large and charming world of Western Armenia, “like an eternal poem”, has simultaneously become a source of inspiration for him, and S. Gorodetsky has painted memorable monuments, picturesque images of nature. By the way, his painting skills were once noticed by the outstanding Russian painter I.E. Repin
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