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Yeghishe Charents

Yeghishe Charents was an Armenian poet, writer, and public activist. Charents's literary subject matter ranged from his experiences in the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and frequently Armenia and Armenians. He is recognized as "the main poet of the 20th century" in Armenia.

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culture · Armenian poet, writer and public activist (1897–1937) · translator · poet · prose writer · writer · also Yeghishe Charents, Yeghishe Abgari Soghomonyan, Eghishe Charentsʻ, Charents

Born 13 March 1897 · Died 27 November 1937 · Q739413

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World Socialist Web Site: Yeghishe Charents’ selected poetry and prose
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News: Turkish nationalist mayor demolishes Armenian writer Yeghishe Charents’ house in Kars (PHOTOS)
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2025· 1 entry

Nov 12, 2025Documented record69% confidence

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World Socialist Web Site: Yeghishe Charents’ selected poetry and prose

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2019· 1 entry

Feb 28, 2019Documented record69% confidence

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News: Turkish nationalist mayor demolishes Armenian writer Yeghishe Charents’ house in Kars (PHOTOS)

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2016· 1 entry

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Recited a passage from that poem of Charents

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2015· 1 entry

Mar 23, 2015Documented record69% confidence

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Time Out: "On Homoerotic Poems and Yeghishe Charents"

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2014· 2 entries

Mar 12, 2014Documented record69% confidence

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PanARMENIAN.Net: 117th birth anniv. of great Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents

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Mar 12, 2014Documented record69% confidence

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Armenpress: 117th anniversary of Yeghishe Charents to be celebrated by series of literary events

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2013· 1 entry

Oct 22, 2013Documented record69% confidence

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News: Armenian President attends opening of monument to Yeghishe Charents

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2012· 1 entry

Mar 12, 2012Documented record69% confidence

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PanARMENIAN.Net: Procession to the monument of Armenian poet Yeghishe Charents on the occasion of poet's 115th anniversary

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1957· 1 entry

1957Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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The architect Rafayel Israyelian completed the Charents Arch, in memory of the writer

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1956· 1 entry

1956Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Armenian First Secretary Suren Tovmasyan lauded Charents and "recalled the poet's quote casting Moscow as the 'center of the world

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1954· 1 entry

Mar 11, 1954Documented record66% confidence

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Two years before Nikita Khrushchev's "Secret Speech"

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1937· 2 entries

Nov 27, 1937Documented record86% confidence

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Died 1937-11-27.

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1937Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Due to severe health complications, including Morphinism

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1935· 1 entry

1935Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Found him "bursting with energy and ideas," but also "quite profoundly troubled in spirit and ill in body

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1933· 1 entry

1933Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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But its distribution was delayed by the Soviet government until 1934, when it was reissued with some revisions

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1931· 1 entry

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Charents married Izabella Kodabashyan

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1930· 1 entry

1930Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Charents's book, Epic Dawn, which consisted of poems he wrote in 1927-30, was published in Yerevan

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1926· 2 entries

Sep 5, 1926Documented record70% confidence

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In a park in Yerevan, Charents shot and slightly wounded a sixteen-year-old girl, Marianna Ayvazyan, the sister of composer Artemi Ayvazyan

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1926Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Charents published his satirical novel, Land of Nairi (Yerkir Nairi), which became a great success and repeatedly published in Russian in Moscow during his lifetime

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1921· 1 entry

1921Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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To study at the Institute of literature and Arts founded by Valeri Bryusov

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1919· 1 entry

1919Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Returned to Armenia and took part in revolutionary activities there

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1915· 2 entries

1915Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Amid the upheavals of the First World War and the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, he volunteered to fight in a detachment on the Caucasian Front

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1915Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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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

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1912· 1 entry

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

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1897· 1 entry

Mar 13, 1897Documented record86% confidence

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Born 1897-03-13.

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