Avetik Isahakyan

Until the end of his life, even during the years of Soviet atheism and violence, Isahakyan did not cut ties with the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.  The Gevorkian Theological Seminary was decisive in the fate of the poet․ He wrote his first poems while studying here. He received the first word of praise and encouragement from the Seminary teacher, poet Hovhannes Hovhannisyan.