| EARLY TRAVELLERS' ACCOUNTS OF ANI |
Background
The fame of Ani has always attracted the attention, and the pen, of travellers through Armenia.
Here are a selection of their accounts.
Here are a selection of their accounts.
-
Friar William of Rubruck - in 1255.
- The Nestorian monks Sawma and Markos - circa 1277.
- Sir Robert Ker Porter - in 1817.
- William Hamilton - in 1836.
- Richard Wilbraham - in 1837.
- K. E. Abbot - in 1842.
- Charles Gordon - in 1857.
- John Ussher - in the 1860s.
- Max von Thielmann - in 1872.
- H. F. B. Lynch - in 1893.
- G. I. Gurdjieff - in the 1890s.
- K. Basmadjian - in 1903.
- Luigi Villari - in 1905.
- Konstantin Paustovsky - in 1923.
- Lord Kinross - in 1951.
- John Marriner - in 1967.
- Ani is featured in James Morier's 1834 novel "Ayesha".