Tigran Metz Biography

No one was embarrassed that Tigran has a very distant attitude towards Christianity both in direct and figurative sense; The music ignorant in the history of music probably became proud that they wrote about our great ancestor until the very 18th century. We can add from ourselves that until the 18th century, the opera was dedicated to many eminent musicians to the Armenian ruler.

Interestingly, but the fact: in honor of Tigran II, 23 operas of the most famous composers of the Baroque and Rococo era were written. This is probably the only figure of the ancient period, awarded such attention in the musical world. The last great representative of the Hellenistic era, the characteristic of the English historian V. Tarn Tagran II left a truly unusual heritage: conflicting information in the enemies of both his enemies and well -wishers, magnificent, beautifully minted coins, majestic ruins of fortress walls and cities and ...

complete silence in folk art. About yourself. No, the echo of his stormy activity, of course, sounded, but in the songs and stories about his distant ancestor - Tigran Yervandyan. Coins with the image of the Tigran the Great, minted at the Damasian Mint. From the collection of the National Library of France, having turned into a collective image, the reference king, a certain half-hero-half-half, for many years he was considered a model of a wise and fair ruler.

So the Tigran of the Great is also represented by the “father of our history” by Movses Horenaci. But contemporaries simply called him God. A person, the ruler, by ancient standards, a deeply provincial country, managed to create an empire in 14 years due to the ability to correctly build relations with neighbors and clearly set goals. He came to power by a mature, a summer man, from the Parthian hostage, he became king, in exchange for freedom, losing to the “70 valleys” of the border land, came to the next era of historical changes, when the republican Rome, knowing the taste of luxury after the destruction of fabulously rich Carthage, was rapidly going to dictatorship and all sorts of triumphs through civil wars and uprisings of workers, in the uprising of workers, in the uprising of workers, in the uprising of workers.

Military campaigns took everything he wanted from the whole world, giving nothing in return. And he aroused wild hatred among all the peoples of that world. We will not disassemble all the campaigns and victories of Tigran, we note only the most significant. The ally of Tigran II was an equally colorful and bright hero of his time, the Pontic ruler of Mithridates VI Evpator, who elevated his pedigree to the Persian and Macedonian kings, considering all the Roman patricians and black.

Perfectly educated, he spoke all the dialects and languages ​​of the Little Azian states, considered himself the second Hannibal, if only because he also hated Rome ... The Pontian and Armenian kings were secured by a dynastic marriage. Mithridates, who was much younger than Tigran, gave him his summer daughter Cleopatra Jr. he had Cleopatra-Sr. from another wife.

Tsar Mithridates VI Evpator. Sculpture from the Louvre collection. Photo: Wikimedia. Having borrowed him against neighboring Cappadocia, which by that time was under the rule of Rome, the rulers agreed: “Earth is the mitridate, everything that is on earth is Tigran.” Tigran began to densely populate his land, strengthen and expand cities, build new ones, encourage trade, development of crafts, and trade.

All this raised the country until the king began to go beyond the boundaries of his state. First of all, he returned to himself those “70 valleys” that Parthia lost as a ransom. It was there, not far from the modern Diarbakyr, he laid the pearl of his kingdom - the new capital of Tigranakert, which should not have conceded any other capital in its wealth, beauty and luxury.

At the same time, other Tigranakerts and Tigranans throughout Armenia were built with her. One of them is Tigranakert in Artsakh. Further, the ruler opened roads to the south and east. Also, the Armenian king joined the Northern Mesopotamia, the cities and states of the front East met Tigran as a liberator from the Roman yoke. As historians colorfully expressed, "Syria fell into the hands of Tigran as an overripe fruit." Syrian Antioch, the focus of the sweet life and luxury of the Eastern Mediterranean, became the southern capital of his kingdom.

Tigran reached the Nabata kingdom of modern UAE and Kilikia, in the Southern Mediterranean there was an Armenian fleet, and the Armenian lands were populated by the inhabitants of the Greek cities, Cappadocia and commagines mainly of Jewish origin. But ... the military is conquered by the earth, and holds the people. What people? The one who renounced Rome? Looking ahead, we note that the same people then renounced from Tigran, whom he called by God.

Behind the army were Armenian peasants, artisans, merchants - to master new lands for their king. One human stream was sent to Armenia, another from Armenia. And it turns out that on the second ten of his reign, the great king settled the Armenians throughout the front East, and the “holy place” provided to strangers who easily took and poorly defended. Eduard Isabekyan.

Tigran the Great, photo: Eduardisabekyan.But in the years BC, the Roman commander Lukull went east, and in a desperate attempt to find funds for the new campaign, Mithridates VI overlaid the recently liberated cities with heavy taxes. This was a terrible mistake that led to the mass transition of the lands freed from Rome again to the side of Rome. Lukull took the Pontic kingdom and from there moved to Armenia.

Through the area completely dedicated to temple farms, robbing and ruining the sanctuaries, he went down to the capital of Tigranakert. Tigran himself was then in distant dates. The royal regiment managed to break through the environment and take out the royal family and the treasury, but due to the betrayal of the garrison, it consisted of mercenaries the city was taken and given to the marauders.

Tigran managed to repulse only off the coast of Aratsans now - Murat. He, the seventy -year -old elder, managed to stop the Roman onslaught, but everything changed when a commander, Triumvir Gnyu Pompei, entered the Armenian lands later, in 67 BC. Squeezed between Parfia and Rome, Tigran forced to negotiate ... It seemed that in one year he lost everything: both the country and the family.

The king himself sentenced his two sons from Cleopatra, suspecting them of treason, the third son openly crossed the side of Rome, asking Pompey’s defense and help, Cleopatra herself escaped to his brother to the north, to Sinopa. Tigran is great. Photo: m. Artashat is the capital, where negotiations with Pompey are underway, Tigran is the king of Armenia, and this is not disputed by Rome, next to him is the eldest son, his co -ruler, smart, talented and educated artavaz, probably the only witness to the acquired and lost grandeur.

For twenty years of reign, Tigran from the former royal hostage turned into an emperor, God, and then again into a defeated enemy. During the years of greatness, the tsarist palace was provided to all thinkers and historians of the world, who vying praised and glorified him. He lived, illuminated by the rays of glory, and when the sun shines high above his head, a person does not notice his shadow - an inseparable part, confirming himself - his people who followed him, setting up new lands, cities, settlements ...

According to the accepted etiquette, Tigran took off the diadem and the last steps to the Roman camp went on foot. The king, who was dull by God. Pompey accepted it with honor and offered acceptable conditions: the abandonment of all conquests and a tribute of 6 thousand talents with silver. After the Artashat Treaty, Pompey still needed how many years to return the lands of Tigran to Rome.

The lands on which strong, vast Armenian settlements formed for summer possession. Then it seemed a true and quick decision, but tried not to think about the consequences. Jean Fuke. Pompey enters the Jerusalem Temple, approx. Tigran the Great returned to his capital from the camp, as then, 30 years ago, from Parfia. The outgoing sun shone in the back, and probably for the first time in his life the old, tired lord noticed his shadow - a long, fuzzy, stretching in front of him, much exceeding his growth in his length.

Did he think about how his people scattered around the world? And for what? For whom? For the will of the will to power one person? The younger Tigran was taken to Rome and executed there in 58 BC. Tigran II ruled the country for another ten years. Next to him was his artavazd, son and co -ruler. He lived a great life and left the descendants of a well -maintained homeland ...

Historian, translator, Armenian teacher Nuna Mkhitaryans specifically for the Armenian Museum of Moscow Cover: Artush Voskanyan. Photo: Singulart.