Regina Ghazaryan

Known as a friend and benefactor of Yeghishe Charents, she is credited with saving many of the poet's manuscripts during the regime of Joseph Stalin.

[1] Regina Ghazaryan was born in a family of an Armenian genocide survivor from Van and a noble mother from Yerevan (Khorasanyans).

At the age of fifteen, Ghazaryan, an orphan, had "in some sort been adopted by Charents as both an intimate friend and a witness to his solitary hours".

[3] In 1937, from the prison cell Charents had secretly informed his wife Izabella that she should trust all of his writings only to a family friend, artist Regina Ghazaryan and she will save them from being destroyed.

[4] After Charents's death Regina Ghazaryan hid and preserved many of his manuscripts (7000 lines in total[5] including "Requiem to Komitas", "The Nameless", "Songs of Autumn" and "Navzike") in the garden.