THE LETTER OF ASHOT HOVHANNISYAN TO MELINE MANUSHYAN

Abstract

After World War II, Meline Manushyan, the widow of Misak Manushyan, left France,
settled in Yerevan and started to work at the Institute of Literature of the ASSR Academy of
Sciences. In the early 1960s, she left for Paris for several months to visit her sister. In 1964,
while in Paris, she did not have any particular desire to return to Armenia, and many people
knew about it. That is why the outstanding Armenian historian A. G. Hovhannisyan wrote to
her with a request to return to her homeland, to Soviet Armenia, although she did not pay any
attention to his proposal.