LITERARY HERITAGE

Abovyan left a rich and of various genres literary-scientific-pedagogical heritage: novel, short story, poem, quatrain, lyric, fables, rhyme stories, diaries, travelling notes, historical-historical-ethnographic research, educational manuals and text-books, folk lore writings, prose and poetic translations of antique, Russian and European writers, official letters and projects on improvement of the economic and mental life of the Armenian and neighbouring nationalities. All these are phenomena in the New Armenian literature and in the history of public thought. Abovyan laid the foundation of the literary new school: the Armenian romanticism, the new Armenian pedagogy, ethnography, study of folklore, which became the first classical models of the mentioned directions in our reality.