By a Frenchman: About an Armenian architect

Soon a book presentation for French journalist and writer Mishel Formon will take place at the “Narekatsi Art Center” for his book, “The Lost Paradise of Christ.” The book was published in September by the “Tigran Mets” publishing company. The hero of the book is architect and painter Kristapor Tadevosyan. As Naira Hayrapetyan of the Narekatsi Center said, the translation of Formon’s book into Armenian allows the reader to find out about the creations and life of Kristapor Tadevosyan, a student of Alexander Tamanyan and who was educated in Geneva. Tadevosyan had roots in historical Agulis (Nakhichevan), and his sister’s grandson was Kristapor Mikayelyan, a founder of Dashnaktsutyun, after which he was named. The book’s author gives a good history of Tadevosyan’s family, as well as the history of Armenia in the first quarter of the 20th century.

We add that the hero of the book moved from Tehran to Geneva in 1973, where he lived the rest of his life. He died in 1992.