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I would like to talk about Alexander Pushkin’s poem “Tazit”. Specifically this little part that barbarians loooooove to recite saying “look what the great Pushkin said about Armenians”. But none of them and I mean 0 amount of barbarians understand the actual meaning of this.
This is obviously taken out of context and it’s not even addressed towards an ethnic Armenian. The poem is about Tazit. His father Gasub is saying these lines to him. Gasub eldest son died and Tazit was raised by Gasub’s friend. Gasub was disappointed at how Tazit turned out.
Tazit wonders around the mountains for some times. When he returns he and his father have the following conversation.
The second time Tazit returns from wondering around the mountains. They have another conversation. In the last few lines it says that Tazit doesn’t know cruelty and can’t fight.
The final conversation between Tazit and his father. Tazit met his brother’s killer. Gasub is disappointed that Tazit didn’t kill him to avenge his brothers death. Because of this his father shuns him and calls him “a cowered, a slave, an Armenian.”
Now that we have context. It is clear that barbarians use this without understanding the meaning of these lines. Given the context the meaning behind “an Armenian” is that he is humane, timid, not cruel and doesn’t thirst blood unlike his father.
