HARUTYUN HAZARYAN, AN AMERICAN-ARMENIAN CULTURAL FIGURE, IS KNOWN FOR DONATING AROUND 400 MANUSCRIPTS TO MATENADARAN
The movement of repatriation of relics of Armenian culture is inextricably linked with the name of New York resident Harutyun Hazaryan. Hazaryan began collecting fragments of Armenian culture around the world following the Great Genocide on the advice of Archbishop Garegin Hovsepyan in the 1920s. He believed that the best place for the scattered values