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OPENING OF THE HOUSE-MUSEUM OF YEGHISHE CHARENTS

The house-museum of Yeghishe Charents (1897-1937) in Yerevan keeps the memory of one of the greatest names of Armenian poetry and symbol of the Stalinist purge of Armenian intelligentsia in 1936-1938. The museum, installed at the building where Charents lived the last two years of his life (6 Sundukian Street at the time, now Mashtots Avenue 17), was created by decision …

YEGHISHE CHARENTS

Yeghishe Charents worked at the Armenian State Publishing House and developed a prolific editorial program, His works have been published many times, and statues, streets and a museum perpetuate his name in Armenia.