Avetik Isahakyan among his relatives

The photograph shows Avetik Isahakyan among his relatives. There are 8 people in the frame, men, women and children, seated around a table laid with food. Behind them a carpet hangs on the wall, with a framed portrait of a woman hung diagonally on it.

Avetik Isahakyan was an Armenian Soviet poet, prose writer and publicist. He was born on 30 October 1875 in Alexandropol (Gyumri) and died on 17 October 1957 in Yerevan.