The son of Piotrovsky is biography

The Piotrovsky graduate of the Yerevan State University, who later became an outstanding archaeologist-military, Ripsime Mikaerovna Dzhanpozdoyan found her fate on the excavations of the famous Karmir-blura of the Red Hill of the ancient fortress city of Teysbainin. It was in this expedition, which later included in the textbooks on the history of the ancient world, in the year she met Boris Piotrovsky, a researcher at the Hermitage.

The bronze figurine of the Urartian god of war found by Ripsime introduced them. They got married in M ​​in Yerevan, where two years earlier the exhausted Piotrovsky was evacuated from the blockade Leningrad now St. Petersburg. Archeology also became his vocation, he also went on an expedition as a schoolboy and spent the first expeditionary salary on a small nephritic vase-a gift-talisman for his mother.

To be the mother of Academician Mikhail Piotrovsky, the current director of the State Hermitage, and the wife of academician Boris Piotrovsky, who held this post for more than twenty -five years, is difficult pride and joyful responsibility. Ripsime Mikaerovna carried it with dignity and tact: she was a happy wife and mother. Thus, Nakhichevan mines adjacent to Daralagiaz were discovered, and this happened in the first half of the 19th century.

The state had a monopoly on the production of salt, but the one who opened the deposit could count on the rental of new cops. Manuku was issued a license for all the salt cops of Nakhichevani, and production began to actively make him profit. The son of Babai, continuing his father’s work, expanded and strengthened him. Three of the four sons of Babay served on his father’s mines, and the youngest - Michael, studied at the surveyor.

The time has come, and Babai with two eldest sons went to Tiflis to conduct there. Michaela was left to the manager on salt shrubs in Nakhichevan. Here is how the Nakhichevan salt cops of V. Levitsky described in his travel essays “A Vacation trip to the Erivan province and the Karsk region” “A collection of materials for describing the localities and tribes of the Caucasus”, release 21, Tiflis, for the first time in my life I had to walk so much underground.

Without a person familiar with all countless moves, it was hardly possible for anyone to get out of there: before that, these moves are similar to each other and before that they represent a confused maze. You experience some strange, difficultly transmitted sensation, walking among these salt corridors with thousands of crystals, which reflect the light from your lamp. Your steps freeze silently, because the floor is covered with a layer of blue clay, and the powerful layer of salt and clay above, from the sides and below does not allow any noise to spread ...

The old mines, which are in connection with the new ones, make a very strong impression of their vastness and infinity. The temperature in the adits always remains the same - 10 degrees Celsius; The air is dry, so in the general mines could serve as beautiful cellars to preserve wine and products. ” The Russian Empire broke up. On its outskirts in the Armenian region, Nakhichevan unfolded a deadly battle between the recently formed Armenian Republic and the alliance of the destroying Ottoman Empire and from this brutaling Ottoman and the Republic of Azerbaijan for the first time on the political map of the Azerbaijani.

There were also the British, great masters to draw colonial boundaries. Eranyak was pregnant with the future daughter of Ripsime, and Michael continued to manage his father's salt cops. Once, a Persian governor came to their house open for everyone and said that they should immediately leave the city. And he does not manage even for himself. For if the pogroms begin, then he may come to their home to kill ...

And in deep thought he added: “Anything can happen on the road ... And if you, Madame Eranyak, want to take all the most valuable to you to Tiflis safe for you, then I am happy to help home soon and Michael soon came home and Michael. Everything was already ready for departure. They sent to Erivan Yerevan, then to Tiflis, where their son Gurgen already studied and where the father and brothers of her husband were.

They walked in a small group of refugees. They moved through high ridges and deep gorges towards Lake Sevan. The situation was also complicated by the fact that the Yeranyak could give birth at any second. It was decided to give birth in this dirty and cold deafomani, in the barn. Those who took birth did not even have a pure knife or scissors to cut off the umbilical cord.

Eranak takes out small scissors from his pocket, which accidentally found themselves in his pocket, when they left the house in a hurry ... Mikhail Piotrovsky: "Mom was born in biblical, in nurseries, and saved and saved her family." After some time, the family was in Tiflis. Relatives helped her get settled. One day, an unfamiliar Russian officer knocked on the door of their Tiflis house.

The door was opened by an Eranyak, and the stranger handed her the knot with the jewelry that she handed over to the Persian governor. Now they live on Sovetskaya Street in a one-story house of Ter-Pogosyanov, relatives of Yeranyak. Michael works in the People's Commissariat of Complex, this is where the profession of surveyor came in handy.Their eldest son Gurgen became one of the leaders of Armenergo, Levon-a chemical scientist, academician, daughter of Aida-a honored doctor of the republic.

Ripsik called Ripsime Mikaeolovna relatives, friends, friends at the University of Yerevan, studied with the famous academicians A. Manandyan and G., her cousin, future academician, director of Matenadaran L. Khachikyan, future wonderful writer V. studied with her then. She participates in the expedition of the famous scientist K. Kafadaryan: she excavated in one of the ancient capitals of Armenia-Dvina-Byzantine glass, which served as an important evidence of intense trade and economic ties between Armenia and Byzantium.

Mikhail Borisovich recalls the city of his childhood: “Yerevan was an accumulation of adobe houses. We ourselves huddled in a similar one-and in the same courtyard, crammed with vines, with a toilet in the fresh air, lived the families of the director of Matenadaran, several famous academic scientists. In the middle of the courtyard there was a common crane with drinking water for everyone.

But the oldest bath was the most delicious water - we went there on purpose there ... Not only our large family gathered in the yard, and friends came. My uncle Levon came, the brother of his mother, who lived separately, but often visited us ... ”One of the streets of Yerevan was named after academician Boris Borisovich Piotrovsky. Mikhail Piotrovsky: “Daddy's ancestors are mostly Russified Poles.

Our grandfather is an artillery colonel. We have a good set of not so much ancestors as traditions. You can always be with the Poles - Russian, with the Russians - the Armenian, with the Armenians - again Russian. ” In the year, at the end of the Historical Linguistic Faculty of Leningrad University, he goes to work at the Academy of the History of Material Culture.

Since the year, Piotrovsky has been taking part in scientific expeditions in Armenia, the purpose of which is to search and study the traces of Urartian civilization. Especially significant were the results of the excavations of the Carmir-blura on the outskirts of Yerevan. The ancient city of Teysbainin, whose ruins were hidden under the red hill, is now one of the most interesting and most fully studied monuments of the Urartu state - an entire link in ancient history.

In the blockade winter - gg. Boris Piotrovsky wrote the capital work “History and Culture of Urartu”, which was published in the year for which he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences and the Stalinist Prize. In the same M, Ripsime and Boris got married. By the end of the year, the son was born. On the eve of the birth of his firstborn, Lona Gulzalian, oriented to his friend, Leon Gulzalian, “I would like him or she had brown eyes and dark hair, because he or she will wear the Armenian name.” And indeed, the boy was called Michael - the name of his grandfather: this is how Mikhail Borisovich appears in the metric.

In Soviet times, even close relatives did not have the right to visit the maternity ward in the hospital. This brought a young father in a rage - he wrote to his wife Ripsime three letters per day and himself delivered them to the threshold of the hospital. The very first letter began like this: “My dear, priceless girl! I congratulate you and hasten to express my immense joy.

How do you feel? Describe to me briefly our Michaelchik. ” Michaela-Mikhail’s childhood passed between Russia and Armenia: winter-in Leningrad, summer-in Yerevan, sometimes the family tried to spend two weeks or month in nature, near the highland Lake Sevan. Mikhail and his brother Levon, two years younger, often remained in the care of their strict grandmother Eranyak, and young parents left for excavations: Boris-to Karmir-Blur, and Ripsime-to Dvin, the medieval capital of Armenia 35 km from Yerevan.

According to the stories, I liked the eastern arsenal most of all, where they gave me to play on the drum, ”said Mikhail Borisovich on occasion. Ripsime Mikaerovna was a very good Armenian mother. Mom knew how to keep her family, and this quality, perhaps she inherited from her mother I taught Armenian to understand what my mother was talking about with her grandmother - so that they had no secrets.

After returning to Leningrad, Piotrovsky lived for some time in the house of Joseph Abgarovich Orbeli a descendant of the princely family of Orbelians - the rulers of the vast Armenian land, who then headed the Hermitage. Joseph Orbeli was a brave and decisive person in life and in science. His courage sometimes reached the impudence. So, in the midst of the Stalinist purges, he received an instruction from the People’s Commissariat of the internal affairs of the NKVD to immediately submit a list of employees of the Hermitage who had noble origin.

Orbeli made a list and sent it to the right address. The first on the list was his name. They didn’t bother the Hermitage more ... Mikhail Borisovich about Boris Borisovich: “I think that my father’s significance in Russian culture sets, first of all, his learning. As a scientist, by the way, had a wonderful property, making sensational discoveries, quickly formalize them and publish them, do public attention.

No wonder Urartu discovered to him so soon got into school textbooks.Father came to the director of the Hermitage when the “great discovery” of the museum began - both the country and the world. It was with my father, and to a large extent thanks to him, he became the real showcase of Russia. Russia, which went to the world. Father was engaged in the museum from morning to evening.

He was a handsome man. Always made a very good impression on women. He was polite, gallant. " The time has come to remind of those ancient layers of the history of culture, which are the basis, the foundation of today's Caucasian life. This foundation is, although they do not always see it or want to see.