Avetik Isahakyan with his grandson, 1957

Avetik Isahakyan with his grandson, Leninakan (Gyumri), 1957.

Avetik Sahaki Isahakyan was an Armenian Soviet poet, prose writer and publicist. He was born on 30 October (18 October, Old Style) 1875 in Alexandropol, Erivan Governorate, Russian Empire, and died on 17 October 1957 in Yerevan.

In the photograph Isahakyan and a teenage boy sit on a carved stone bench under the branches of a tree. Isahakyan wears a striped shirt, and the boy a striped short-sleeved shirt and shorts.