Կարինէ Ռաֆայէլեան2026-02-042026-02-042014Ռաֆայէլեան, Կ., «Դերենիկ Դեմիրճեանի նորայայտ ձեռագիրը. Ղարաբաղի եւ Նախիջեւանի հարցի արծարծումներ», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2014, Պէյրութ, էջ 309-338https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/1147During research at the Yerevan-based Yeghishe Charents Museum of Literature and Art, where Derenik Demirchyan’s literary archive is preserved, the author comes across an unknown manuscript of 24 pages, located in a file titled “Articles, Speeches and Various notes” with the following sub-note: “His Judgments on Nagorno Karabagh and Nakhchivan Matters, Drafts.” Obviously in an attempt to misguide investigators, Demirchyan had jotted the following note on the file: “Everyday Mixed Notes (rather linguistic)” and only at the bottom of the page had he added: “Karabagh.” The manuscript is an overview of the historical events of Transcaucasia in 1918-1923; the relations between its three main national groups, the Armenians, the Azeris and the Georgians; and their political orientation vis-à-vis Russia and the West. Demirchyan argues strongly for the reintegration of Nagorno Karabakh, Nakhchivan and and Akhalkalak with Soviet Armenia. It seems Demirchyan, a cautious and circumspect person, avoided an eye-catching title to his notes, which would immediately have revealed their nature and provoked accusations of nationalism against him. After thoroughly investigating the material, Rafaelyan concludes that Demirchyan probably worked on these unfinished notes in 1954. Rafaelyan identifies certain common grounds between these notes and the literary legacy of Demirchyan. By publishing the original material, Rafaelyan underlines the fact that the demands for the unification of Nagorno Karabakh with Soviet Armenia started in the very first years of Sovietization and continued throughout the Soviet era.