Petros Heronimosi Adamian (Armenian: ÕŠÕ¥Õ¿Ö€Õ¸Õ½ Õ€Õ¥Ö€Õ¸Õ¶Õ«Õ´Õ¸Õ½Õ«
Ô±Õ¤Õ¡Õ´Õ¥Õ¡Õ¶, December 21, 1849, Istanbul â€" June 3, 1891,
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire) was an outstanding Armenian actor, poet,
writer, artist and public figure. According to Russian critics, his
interpretations of Hamlet and Othello put Adamian's name among the
best tragedians of the world.Adamian's mother died when he was one and
a half years old.He started his artistic career at the age of
seventeen, in the play "William the Conqueror." After a first period
in his career where he gradually won recognition in the theater groups
of Constantinople, in 1879 he was hired by the Armenian Theater Board
of Tiflis and the golden period of his career started afterwards in
the Caucasus. He would abandon the historical plays and the French
melodramas to enter the world of Shakespeare. Since 1879 he performed
in Baku, Shushi, Alexandropol, Tiflis. In the 1880s, when the Ottoman
Turkish reaction "held the national minorities in scorn", Adamian had
an artistic tour in foreign (Russian and Ukrainian) cities, acting
both in Armenian and French languages. In 1887 a Russian theatrical
critic wrote about Adamian in "Odessky Vestnik": "Not Salvini, not
Rossi, not Possart, not Barna, and finally, no world-famous actor has
given us such a pure and perfect Hamlet as P. Adamian did." In 1888 he
returned to Constantinople. Among his best roles of that period: King
Lear, Arbenin (Lermontov's "Masquerade"), Khlestakov (Gogol's
"Revisor"), Mikael (Sundukian's "One more victim"), etc. Being a
"great Shakespearean actor" and the first Armenian scientific
researcher of William Shakespeare plays, in 1887 he published the
study "Shakespeare and the Sources and Criticism of His Tragedy
Hamlet." He also made translations from Shakespeare, Victor Hugo,
Semyon Nadson, and Nikolai Nekrasov.Adamian suffered from a throat
cancer for the last two years of his life. He died in the St. Nicholas
Russian hospital of Constantinople.
Ô±Õ¤Õ¡Õ´Õ¥Õ¡Õ¶, December 21, 1849, Istanbul â€" June 3, 1891,
Istanbul, Ottoman Empire) was an outstanding Armenian actor, poet,
writer, artist and public figure. According to Russian critics, his
interpretations of Hamlet and Othello put Adamian's name among the
best tragedians of the world.Adamian's mother died when he was one and
a half years old.He started his artistic career at the age of
seventeen, in the play "William the Conqueror." After a first period
in his career where he gradually won recognition in the theater groups
of Constantinople, in 1879 he was hired by the Armenian Theater Board
of Tiflis and the golden period of his career started afterwards in
the Caucasus. He would abandon the historical plays and the French
melodramas to enter the world of Shakespeare. Since 1879 he performed
in Baku, Shushi, Alexandropol, Tiflis. In the 1880s, when the Ottoman
Turkish reaction "held the national minorities in scorn", Adamian had
an artistic tour in foreign (Russian and Ukrainian) cities, acting
both in Armenian and French languages. In 1887 a Russian theatrical
critic wrote about Adamian in "Odessky Vestnik": "Not Salvini, not
Rossi, not Possart, not Barna, and finally, no world-famous actor has
given us such a pure and perfect Hamlet as P. Adamian did." In 1888 he
returned to Constantinople. Among his best roles of that period: King
Lear, Arbenin (Lermontov's "Masquerade"), Khlestakov (Gogol's
"Revisor"), Mikael (Sundukian's "One more victim"), etc. Being a
"great Shakespearean actor" and the first Armenian scientific
researcher of William Shakespeare plays, in 1887 he published the
study "Shakespeare and the Sources and Criticism of His Tragedy
Hamlet." He also made translations from Shakespeare, Victor Hugo,
Semyon Nadson, and Nikolai Nekrasov.Adamian suffered from a throat
cancer for the last two years of his life. He died in the St. Nicholas
Russian hospital of Constantinople.
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