- Petros Adamian
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name = Petros AdamianՊետրոս Ադամյան
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birth_date = 1849
birth_place =Istanbul
death_date = 1891
death_place =Istanbul
occupation = actor, writer and artist
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children =Petros Heronimosi Adamian ( _hy. Պետրոս Ադամյան, 1849,
Constantinople , modernIstanbul -June 3 ,1891 ,Constantinople ) was an outstandingArmenia n actor, poet, writer, artist and public figure. According to the Russian critics, his interpretations ofHamlet andOthello put Adamian's name among the best tragedians of the world [ [http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/bse/article/00000/94400.htm?text=%D0%90%D0%94%D0%90%D0%9C%D0%AF%D0%9D%20%D0%9F%D0%95%D0%A2%D0%A0%D0%9E%D0%A1 Petros Adamian in Great Soviet Encyclopedia] ] .Biography
Adamian's mother died when he was one and a half years old.
His artistic career started in 1866 at the Armenian theatre in Constantinople. Since 1879 he performed in
Baku ,Shushi ,Alexandrapol ,Tiflis . In 1880's, when the Ottoman Turkish reaction "held the national minorities in scorn" [ [http://www.padus-araxes.com/rassegna/iparte.html Shakespeare in Armenian, by Sona Seferian] ] , Adamian had an artistic tour in foreign (Russia n and Ukrainian) cities, acting both in Armenian andFrench language s. In 1888 a Russian theatrical critic wrote about Petros Adamian in "Odessky Vestnik": "Not Possart, not Rossi, not Barnai, no one of European actors visitted to Russia gave us so absolute, artistically complete "Hamlet" as Mr. Adamian did". In 1888 he returned to Constantinople. Among his best roles of that period:King Lear , Arbenin (Lermontov's "Masquerade"), Khlestakov (Gogol's "Revisor"), Mikael (Sundukian's "One more victim"), etc. Being a "great Shakespearean actor" [ [http://www.padus-araxes.com/rassegna/iparte.html Shakespeare in Armenian, by Sona Seferian] ] and the first Armenian scientifical researcher ofWilliam Shakespeare plays, in 1887 he wrote the "Shakespeare and his Hamlet tragedy criticism" research. He also made translations from Shakespeare,Victor Hugo ,Semen Nadson ,Nikolai Nekrasov .Adamian died of a throat cancer, in the Russian hospital.
Adamian’s traditions were developed by Armenian actors "Siranuysh", "Hovhannes Abelian" and others.
The Armenian Drama Theatre of
Tbilisi is named after Adamian.Books
*"Petros Adamian", by G. Stepanian, Yerevan, 1956
References
Links
* [http://www.padus-araxes.com/rassegna/iparte.html Shakespeare in Armenian, by Sona Seferian]
* [http://www.armeniandrama.org/show.php?w=shakespeare-parlakian&a=1 Shakespeare and the Armenian theatre, by Nishan Parlakian, Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance, 2008]
* [http://www.armnet.ru/best_html/adamjan.htm Famous People of Armenia: Petros Adamian]
* [http://www.publish.diaspora.ru/gazeta/articles/armenia006_2.shtml — Mary Cholakian, "The Artist"] // "Planeta Diaspor" journal, 21.02.2000 (in Russian)
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