New e-book: Khachatur Abovyan, Aksel Bakunts

In Aksel Bakunts’s historical novel “Khachatur Abovyan”, the university environment of Dorpat(Tartu) in the first half of the 19th century is reconstructed, where the great Armenian enlightener studied. The author masterfully depicts the turbulent everyday life of the 1830s student “free brotherhood,” their ideological searches, and their clashes with tsarist order and local authorities. At the center of the narrative is the figure of Abovyan, imbued with patriotism and a thirst for knowledge, while the symbolic story of the ascent of Mount Ararat becomes the core of his spiritual awakening and national consciousness.