Marietta Sergeevna Shaginyan - Soviet writer, Hero of Socialist Labor (1976), corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR. Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the third degree (1951) and the Lenin Prize (1972). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1942. She has been engaged in literary activity since 1903. She started with symbolist poems. She has published over 70 books of novels, short stories, short stories, essays, poems and about 300 printed sheets of articles, reviews, reports. She published books of poems "First Meetings" (1909), "Orientalia" (1913, 7 editions were published), then books of short stories "Narrow Gates" (1914), "Seven Conversations" (1915).