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ABANDONED AND RUINED HOUSE OF CHARENTS COSTS MILLION IN KARS
Panorama
Sept 14 2011
Armenia
A group of Armenian pilgrims who travelled to Western Armenia visited
the birthplace of Armenian writer Yeghishe Charents and the house
were the writer was born in 1897.
According to "Ermenihaber.am" news site the pilgrims were upset to see
that the famous writer's house has been abandoned and ruined. They
intended to buy the house, but the owner of the land demanded ~@2
million which made them unable to buy the house.
Amid the upheavals of the First World War and the Armenian Genocide
in the Ottoman Empire, he volunteered to fight in a detachment in 1915
for the Caucasian Front. Sent to Van in 1915, Charents was witness to
the destruction that the Turkish garrison had laid upon the Armenian
population. A victim of Stalinism, he died in prison during the 1937
Great Purge. He was rehabilitated in 1954 after Stalin's death.
Panorama
Sept 14 2011
Armenia
A group of Armenian pilgrims who travelled to Western Armenia visited
the birthplace of Armenian writer Yeghishe Charents and the house
were the writer was born in 1897.
According to "Ermenihaber.am" news site the pilgrims were upset to see
that the famous writer's house has been abandoned and ruined. They
intended to buy the house, but the owner of the land demanded ~@2
million which made them unable to buy the house.
Amid the upheavals of the First World War and the Armenian Genocide
in the Ottoman Empire, he volunteered to fight in a detachment in 1915
for the Caucasian Front. Sent to Van in 1915, Charents was witness to
the destruction that the Turkish garrison had laid upon the Armenian
population. A victim of Stalinism, he died in prison during the 1937
Great Purge. He was rehabilitated in 1954 after Stalin's death.