Regina Tadevosi Ghazaryan (1915, Yerevan — 1999, Yerevan) was an Armenian painter and public figure. She is also well-known as Yeghishe Charent's younger friend, who saved many manuscripts of the Armenian poet during the Stalinism.[1]
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Regina Ghazaryan was born in a family of Armenian Genocide survivors from Van. She met poet Charents in 1930. After Charent's death she saved many of his manuscripts (including "Requiem to Komitas", "The Nameless", "Songs of Autumn" and "Navzike") in the garden and in 1950's granted them to the Charents Museum of Literature and Arts. As a military pilot she participated in World War II.[2]
A memorial plaque was inaugurated on the house in Yerevan where Regina Ghazaryan lived.