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    BUSINESSMAN TO SELL TUMANYAN'S TBILISI APARTMENT TO GEORGIAN COMPANY; ARMENIA SENDS DELEGATION
    Marine Madatyan

    hetq
    19:16, January 18, 2012

    Four rooms of a seven room apartment in Tbilisi where Armenia's
    "national poet" Hovhannes Tumanyan once resided is to be sold by the
    family given the property by the Georgian government in the 1990s.

    Archil Lezhav, the son of a wealthy Georgian businessman, says he
    will sell the place to a Georgian company called Georgia Touran to
    pay for his father's surgical bills.

    At a press conference today in Yerevan, Irma Safrazbekyan, a
    granddaughter of Tumanyan, lamented the fact that Armenians never
    purchased the home when it had the chance.

    "My husband and I met with Lezhav senior in 2004. He was a pleasant
    man and said that he knew of Hovhannes Tumanyan and felt it improper
    to change anything in the apartment. He offered to sell the place
    for $25,000. At the time, the Armenian government argued it didn't
    have the money," Safrazbekyan told reporters.

    Concerned about the looming sale, the Armenian government has sent
    a delegation to Tbilisi for negotiations with Lezhav's son.

    The delegation will be headed by the Levon Ananyan, President of the
    Writers Union of Armenia.

    Ananyan noted that the market price for the 120 square meter apartment
    is around $70,000.

    Yesterday, employees of Georgia Touran visited Alyona Tumanyan,
    the poet's great granddaughter who owns the other three rooms and
    proposed that she sell them to the company as well. She refused.

    Alyona Tumanyan told Irma Safrazbekyan that she would only sell
    the three rooms if Lezhava agreed to transfer his four rooms to the
    Armenian community as a cultural center.

    Writer and literature expert Hovik Charkhchyan told reporters that
    he wasn't hopeful of a positive outcome from the delegation's visit.

    "The bitter experience of the past leads one to believe that we will
    lose the Tumanyan home for all times. It won't matter who purchased
    it or for what purpose," he said.

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