“For many years living away from Armenia, I strongly yearned for my native, sweetheart landscapes, mountains and gorges, rivers and fields, and for everyday scenes of folklife. And my joy was great when Martiros Saryan, a participant in an international art exhibition, arrived in Venice in 1924. I had heard the name of Saryan before, …
Within the framework of the special project “100 stories about the Armenian Genocide in photos”, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute published a photo showing one of the episodes of the forced eviction of Armenians of Erzurum (Karin). The shot with people walking along the road towards Mesopotamia was made near the village of Sushykhir. The author …
Soghomon Tehlirian, the only survivor of his family during the Armenian Genocide, assassinated one of the main perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide Talaat Pasha in 1921. A Fragment from Soghomon Tehlirian’s Interrogation: Chairman: Accused, do you consider yourself guilty of homicide? Soghomon Tehlirian: I do not consider myself guilty because my conscience is calm. Chairman: …
It was in 1973 when people found a crashed plane in the southwest of Yerevan near Sovetashen (Nubarashen). Some suggested that the plane belonged to foreigners who had illegally crossed the state border with not entirely good intentions. However, operational investigations by the security authorities showed that the plane was homemade – moreover, made on …
July 6, 1945. Joseph Vissarionovich! After the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs’ March publication on the denunciation of the December 17, 1925, agreement between Turkey and the USSR, there has been talk among the population that the Soviet Government, having terminated the agreement with Turkey, has plans to return to Armenia the territories that had …
Genocide… Is an irreparable misfortune, indelible disgrace, impotent anger at the insult of the human soul. This topic will always be beating with pain in the chest of an Armenian! After all, the executioners knocked on every door – not a single family escaped murder. My family is no exception. Before moving on to the …
On August 10, 1920, in Tiflis, between the delegations of Soviet Russia and the Republic of Armenia fighting off the attack of the Russian occupation army, an agreement was signed, according to which the military clashes between the two countries were to cease and the control over the so-called disputed territories of Zangezur, Nakhichevan, and …
On the night of January 19-20, 2014, junior sergeant Armen Hovhannisyan prevented enemy sabotage. At the cost of his own life. According to the command of the military unit where Armen served, he could retreat but chose not to. Thanks to his selfless actions, at least ten soldiers’ lives were saved. Armen was the only …
In the center of Dilijan, next to the building of the former cinema, a monument will be erected to the hero of the Battle of Karakilisa, artilleryman captain Gurgen Ter-Movsisyan. In late May 1918, when the command ordered Armenian troops to retreat from Karakilisa (present-day Vanadzor), a native of Artsakh and member of the military …
Sergei Parajanov was arrested in Kiev. The poetess Silva Kaputikyan (the only one from Armenia) sent a letter in defense of Parajanov to the Minister of Culture of the USSR and the chairman of the KGB Yuri Andropov. Naturally, she received a dry rejection in response to her letter. Once eventually released from prison and …
The photo depicts the most famous historical building of Dilijan. This two-story building was built in the 90s of the 19th century for Princess Mariam Tumanyan who at the time lived in Tiflis. The building located in the city center next to the Aghstev River has served as a summer residence. At the beginning of …
On August 10, 1920, in the suburb commune of Paris Sevres, a peace treaty was signed, summarizing the results of WWI. The agreement was signed, on one hand, by the victor countries (the UK, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Armenia, Czechoslovakia, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, Hijaz) and the government …
The film “The Stigma of My Grandmother” by Swedish publicist Susan Hartalian tells about thousands of Armenian women whose bodies were specially tattooed during the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915. The film is also intended to solve the mystery of “tattoos”, in modern terms. In 1988, Susan Hartalian made her first documentary about …
On August 10, 1920, in the suburbs of Paris in the town of Sevres was signed the Treaty of Sevres. The treaty was signed on one hand by the victors in World War I, the UK, France, Romania, Italy, Japan, and Portugal, and on the other hand by the government of the Ottoman Empire. The …
In the Armenian chronicles, Khazars belonging to the Turkic-speaking family are referred to as “Khazirk” (“խազիրք”). The first mention of them is found in Movses Khorenatsi’s records. Having appeared on the political arena in 650, the Khazar Kaganate or Khazaria (the state on the map below, had an area of 3 million square kilometers in …
More than five hundred years ago, monk Hakob Meghapart pulled out from a printing press the first copies of a book called Urbatagirk (Friday Book). Printed in Amsterdam, Urbatagirk was a medical compilation, to which the compiler added one of the chapters of the Book of Lamentations authored by 10th-century Armenian mystic philosopher, theologian, and …
Simon Vratsian was the fourth and last prime minister of the First Republic of Armenia, as well as a minister and influential leader of the Dashnaktsutyun party. “Taking upon myself the duties of the Minister of Agriculture and State Property and wishing to immediately Armenize these institutions, I through the diplomatic representatives of the Republic …
The collapse of the First Republic of Armenia was caused not by the internal rather difficult situation but by external factors. Armenia found itself under joint Kemalist-Bolshevik (Russian-Turkish) attacks. Bolshevik attacks were more critical because if there had been no support for Turkey from Soviet Russia, the Turks who were not in the best position …