Anna Davidovna Abamelik-Lazareva
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Anna Davidovna Abamelik-Lazareva (Lazarian) (Baratinskaya, 1814, Saint-Petersburg - 1889, Saint-Petersburg) was a Russian-Armenian translator, public figure, the daughter of David Semyonovich Abamelik. She was a friend and translator of Alexander Pushkin.
Abamelik-Lazareva married to the governor of Kazan Irakli Baratinsky, the brother of Russian poet Evgeny Baratinsky. She knew English, French and German, translated poems by Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, etc. and published them in Europe, also translated some prominent European poets into Russian.
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- Armenian Concise Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdian, Yerevan, 1990, Vol. 1, p. 8
