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 Re: Russian Composers
Author: NorbertTheParrot 
Date:   2008-12-19 07:43

I wrote:

"Khachaturian was not Russian. He was an Armenian, born in Georgia"

BobD wrote:

"I'm under the impression he was born in Russia to Armenian parents."

In a sense we are both right. And indeed, I didn't say he WASN'T born in Russia.

Khachaturian was born in Georgia at a time when it was part of the Tsarist Russian Empire. Once the Bolsheviks took over, the Russian Empire turned into the USSR, with Russia and Georgia as two of its constituent republics.

At the time of Khachaturian's birth, therefore, his birthplace was in Georgia and in Russia. By the time he grew up, his birthplace was in Georgia but not in Russia.

Khachaturian's birthplace, Tbilisi, known as Tiflis in Russian, is closely associated with Stalin, who was an ethnic Georgian (not a Russian as people often assume). Neither Khachaturian nor Stalin spoke Russian as their first language.
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