The historical severe and unique past of Armenian people left a deep trace in the biographies of Armenian writers, cultural figures and intellectuals on the whole. The role of the national poet of Armenia is great. Tumanyan in the days of the Armenian Genocide without losing time, having sleep or rest, set to give refuge, care and food to the refugees and orphans.
In the Yerevan museum of the national poet of Armenia and the "Father of Orphans" handwritten requests are preserved which were addressed not to the government of 1915 or the church but directly to Hovhannes Tumanyan. In the requests poor men ask the national poet of Armenia for food, clothes and even to fund the funeral of their friends from orphanages.
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