Garig Basmadjian

Garig Basmadjian was a well-known French collector of paintings and antiques of Armenian origin. He was the owner of the "Gorky" gallery of Russian art on the Parisian Boulevard Raspail (Boulevard Raspail) (now the gallery is managed by his sister). He was also a poet and translator of poetry.

He disappeared in July 1989 in Moscow.

Biography He was born on December 20, 1947 in the Armenian quarter of Jerusalem .

He received his higher education in Yerevan, graduating from Yerevan State University with a degree in philology. In 1972, Garig Basmadjian met a French woman of Armenian origin in Yerevan and soon married her. In the same year, the newlyweds moved to Paris.

Basmadjian translated poetry from Armenian into English, and from European languages into Russian and Armenian. He wrote his own poems

On July 12, 2022, journalist Seva Kaplan, known for his interviews with multiple Russian mobsters, claimed, citing an anonymous source, that Basmadjian's body was passed through a meat grinder to dispose of it.