Tag Archive: Russian influence
Womens Seminary of St. Hripsime
Женское среднее учебное заведение, названное в память великой просветительницы Армении, учредилось 2 января 1850 г., благодаря...Read More
Teacher’s Seminary
One of the most significant and largest public buildings of turn of the century Yerevan is this seminary designed and constructed by architect/engineer team V. Mirzoyan and N. Kitkin. As a modern college in European style, the building included not...Read More
Nikolaev Church
Following is a detailed history by Marietta Gasparyan in Russian of the Nikolaev church, which was demolished in 1931 during the reconstruction of the ‘Shahumian’ Square. Today, the monument to Stepan Shahumian (sculptor Sergei Merkurov)...Read More
‘Terlemezyan Art School’ Old building
The recently demolished late 19th century mansion used to serve from mid 1920s as the quarters of one of the first national art schools in Armenia – the Geghard texnikum and later the Terlemezian college of Fine Arts. The building was...Read More