1ג. Վարշավեանկա: La versione armena di Hakob Hakobyan [1902]
1ג. Վարշավեանկա: Hakob Hakobyan's Armenian version [1902]

After a long journey I was finally able to reveal the entire Armenian version of Варшавянка (Վարշավեանկա).　This Armenian chant is now revived here after 100 years. The Armenian lyrics were written in 1902 by Hakob Hakobyan (Հակոբ Հակոբյան), the father of the Armenian proletarian literature. He wrote a number of anti-Tsarist lyrics at the same time, including revolutionary songs such as "La Marseillaise" and "L'Internationale".



Hakob Hakobyan was born in Gandzak in 1866, in the family of a craftsman. He studied for a year in the village with a woman named Tsovi Aghi and then entered a parish school. Hakobyan's father wanted to make the boy a priest or a craftsman, but his mother managed to send his son to a gymnasium. Since the Armenian language and literature were forbidden... (Continues)