CHARENTS BIOGRAPHY

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TODAY IS YEGHISHE CHARENTS'S BIRTHDAY

 

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Yeghishe Charents was an Armenian poet, writer and public activist.

 

Charents was an outstanding poet of the twentieth century, touching

upon a multitude of topics that ranged from his experiences in the

First World War, socialism, and, more prominently, on Armenia and

Armenians.

 

An early champion of communism, Charents joined the Bolshevik party,

but as the Stalinist terror began in the 1930s, he gradually grew

disillusioned with Stalinism and was executed during the 1930s purges.

 

Yeghishe Charents was born Yeghishe Soghomonyan in Kars (then a part

of the Russian Empire) in 1897 to a family involved in the rug trade.

 

He first attended an Armenian, but later transferred to a Russian,

technical secondary school in Kars from 1908 to 1912.In 1912, he had

his first poem published in the Armenian periodical Patani (Tiflis).

 

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, leaving indelible memories that would later be read in

his poems. He left the front one year later, attending school at the

Shanyavski People's University in Moscow. The horrors of the war and

genocide had scarred Charents and he became a fervent supporter of

the Bolsheviks, seeing them as the one true hope to saving Armenia.

 

Charents joined the Red Army and fought during the Russian Civil War

as a rank and file soldier in Russia and the Caucasus. In 1919, he

returned to Armenia and took part in revolutionary activities there. A

year later, he began work at the Ministry of Education as the director

of the Art Department. Charents would also once again take up arms,

this time against his fellow Armenians, as a rebellion took place

against Soviet rule in February 1921. Then, Charents published his

satirical novel, Land of Nairi (Yerkir Nairi), which became a great

success and twice published in Russian in Moscow during the life

of poet.

 

A victim of Stalinism, he was imprisoned and died in prison during the

1937 Great Purge. He was rehabilitated in 1954 after Stalin's death.

 

His home at 17 Mashtots Avenue in Yerevan was turned into a museum

in 1975. The Armenian city Charentsavan was named after him.

 

The first monograph on Charents was published by Simon Hakobyan

(1888~V1937) in 1924 in Vienna. Among the other researchers of

Charents' poetry during that period were P. Makintsyan, H. Surkhatyan,

T. Hakhumyan. After the Stalinist terror in 1937 charentsology was

banned for 17 years. In 1954 N. Dabaghyan (who previously attacked

Charents in the 1930s) published "Yeghishe Charents" critical

monograph. Researches on Charents were published by H. Salakhyan,

Suren Aghababyan, Garnik Ananyan, Almast Zakaryan, Anahit Charents, D.

 

Gasparyan and others.

[Yervant1]

117TH BIRTH ANNIV. OF GREAT ARMENIAN POET YEGHISHE CHARENTS

A victim of Stalinism, Charents was charged for "counterrevolutionary
and nationalist activity" and imprisoned during the 1937 Great Purge.

Armenia marks the 117th birth anniversary of great poet Yeghishe
Charents March 13. Charents was born Yeghishe Abgari Soghomonyan
in Kars in 1897 to a family involved in the rug trade. His family
hailed from the Armenian diaspora of Maku, Persia. He first attended
an Armenian elementary school, but later transferred to a Russian
technical secondary school in Kars from 1908 to 1912. He spent much
of his time in reading. In 1912, he had his first poem published in
the Armenian periodical Patani (Tiflis). 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.

March 13, 2014

PanARMENIAN.Net - Sent to Van in 1915, Charents was witness to the
destruction that the Turkish garrison had laid upon the Armenian
population, leaving indelible memories that would later be read in
his poems. He left the front one year later, attending school at the
Shanyavski People's University in Moscow. The horrors of the war and
genocide had scarred Charents and he became a fervent supporter of
the Bolsheviks, seeing them as the one true hope to saving Armenia.

Charents joined the Red Army and fought during the Russian Civil War
as a rank and file soldier in Russia (Tsaritsin) and the Caucasus. In
1919, he returned to Armenia and took part in revolutionary activities
there. A year later, he began work at the Ministry of Education as the
director of the Art Department. Charents would also once again take
up arms, this time against his fellow Armenians, as a rebellion took
place against Soviet rule in February 1921. One of his most famous
poems, I love the sun-sweet taste of the word Armenia, a lyric ode
to his homeland, was composed in 1920-1921.

Charents returned to Moscow in 1921 to study at the Institute of
literature and Arts founded by Valeri Bryusov. In a manifesto
issued in June 1922, known as the "Declaration of the Three,"
signed by Charents, Gevorg Abov, and Azad Veshtuni, the young authors
expressed their favour of "proletarian internationalism". In 1921-22
he wrote "Amenapoem" (Everyone's poem), and "Charents-name'",
an autobiographical poem. Then, Charents published his satirical
novel, Land of Nairi (Yerkir Nairi), which became a great success
and repeatedly published in Russian in Moscow during the life of poet.

In 1924-1925 Charents went on a seven-month trip abroad, visiting
Turkey, Italy (where he met Avetik Isahakyan), France, and Germany.

When Charents returned, he founded a union of writers, November,
and worked for the state publishing house from 1928 to 1935.

In 1930 Charents's book, "Epic Dawn", which consisted of poems he
wrote in 1927-30, was published in Yerevan. It was dedicated to his
first wife Arpenik.

His last collection of poems, "The Book of The Way", was printed
in 1933, but its distribution was delayed by the Soviet government
until 1934, when it was reissued with some revisions. In this book
the authors lays out the panorama of Armenian history and reviews it
part-by-part. William Saroyan met him in 1934 in Moscow and thereafter
described him as a courtly, brilliant man who was desperately sad.

Excepting few poems in journals, Charents could publish nothing after
1934 (at the same time, in December 1935 Stalin asked an Armenian
delegation how Charents is).

In July 1936, when Soviet Armenian leader Aghasi Khanjian was killed,
Charents wrote a series of seven sonnets. After Komitas's death he
wrote one of his last great works, "Requiem Æternam in Memory of
Komitas" (1936).

Actress Arus Voskanyan told about her last visit to Charents: "He
looked fragile but noble. He took some morphine and then read some
Komitas. When I reached over to kiss his hand he was startled". He
became a morphine addict under the pressure of the campaign against
him and because he was suffering from colic, caused by a kidney stone.

The hypodermic needle Charents used for his habit is on exhibit in
his museum in Yerevan.

A victim of Stalinism, he was charged for "counterrevolutionary and
nationalist activity" and imprisoned during the 1937 Great Purge. He
died in prison hospital. All his books were also banned. Charent's
younger friend, Regina Ghazaryan buried and saved many manuscripts of
the Armenian poet. Charents was rehabilitated in 1954 after Stalin's
death.

Charent's works were translated by Valeri Bryusov, Anna Akhmatova,
Boris Pasternak, Arseny Tarkovsky, Louis Aragon, Marzbed Margossian,
Diana Der Hovanessian, and others. His home at 17 Mashtots Avenue
in Yerevan was turned into a museum in 1975. The Armenian city
Charentsavan was named after him.

A commemorative stamp of 40 kopecks was issued by the Soviet Union in
1958 honoring Charents after his rehabilitation. Another commemorative
stamp of 150 Armenian drams as well as a commemorative coin of 100
Armenian drams were issued by the Republic of Armenia in 1997. The
new Republic of Armenia currency denomination for 1000 drams carried
on one of its two sides the photo of Charents and a famous quotation
in Armenian of one of his poems.

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Panorama, Armenia

Feb 27 2019

Society 14:45 27/02/2019 Region

Renowned Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents' house reportedly destroyed in Kars

Prominent Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents' native house in the town of Kars (currently in Turkey) has been fully destroyed, Ermenihaber reports.

Every year thousands of tourists visit the house to pay tribute to the memory of one of the greatest Armenian writers of the 20th century.

No other details on the destruction of the building were immediately clear.

https://www.panorama.am/en/news/2019/02/27/Yeghishe-Charents-house-Kars/2078687

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PanArmenian, Armenia

March 5 2019

Poet’s home destroyed in Turkey because he was Armenian: lawmaker

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March 5, 2019 - 17:57 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Garo Paylan, an Armenian member of the Turkish Parliament representing the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) has sent an inquiry to Minister of Culture and TourismMehmet Nuri Ersoy over the destruction of a building considered the be the home of the great Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents in Kars.

“I believe the place of remembrance of Charents was destroyed because he was Armenian. Do you agree with me?” Paylan asked the Minister, according to Ermenihaber.am.

The lawmaker also raised several other issues in his letter addressed to Ersoy which are as follows:

“Has your ministry implemented any program aimed at rebuilding Charents' house and turning it into a museum that could be a place of commemoration for Armenian culture and Kars?

“Have you thought that by destroying the building you would cause disappointment and pain to the people loyal to the memory of the poet, as he was born in that house?

“What steps has or will your ministry take to show proper attitude towards places commemorating Armenian artists and intellectuals and preserve them as cultural heritage?”

Hamshen Tour travel agency earlier published footage showing that a building that was traditionally considered to be the house of Charents was demolished in Kars.

Each year, thousands of Armenian tourists flock to the town in the historic Western Armenia to pay tribute to the memory of the great poet.

Charents was born in Kars in 1897 to a family involved in rug trade. His family originally hailed from the Armenian community of Maku, Persian Armenia.

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