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Yeghishe CharentcPoet
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Birthdate: 13.03.1897
Death date: 29.11.1937
Yeghishe Charents was an Armenian poet, critic, translator and public activist. Charents was one of the most outstanding poets 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.
His poetic first attempts were in 1908-1912 when he studied at Kars Real College. In 1915 he joined one of the Armenian Voluntary Detachments and reached the outskirts of Van, witnessed 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. Moscow revolutionary atmosphere has ahd much impact on his inner world. 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, as a rebellion took place against Soviet rule in February 1921. In 1922 he moved to Moscow to study at the Institute of literature and Arts.
On November 16, 1936 was accused in nationalism (anti-revolutionist), trotskism, terrorism by the ASSR IAPC. On November 27 at 7 am, 1937 a victim of Stalinism, Charents, died in the jail hospital (Yerevan). He was rehabilitated in 1954 after Stalin's death. Charents's literary innovations are expressed in the poetic genre: "The Dantean Legend", "The Crowds Gone Crazy", "Commander Shavarsh", "To the Mount Masis", "Vision of Death", "On the ways of History", etc.
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