YEREVAN, MARCH 13, NOYAN TAPAN. 110th birth anniversary of great poet Yeghishe Charents was marked on March 13. Like every year this year also representatives of intelligentsia, students and schoolchildren visited the great poet's memorial complex and paid tribute of respect to the poet's memory. Charents readings were held near the memorial. Lilit Hakobian, Director of Charents' House-Museum, stated that an exhibition under the title "The People to Charents" will open at the museum on the occasion of poet's 110th birth anniversary. During the whole year many events will be organized in Armenia and Artsakh and on the initiative of Union of Writers of Russia the great poet's jubilee will be also solemnly marked in Russia. On the occasion of the jubilee, poet's Selected Poetry will be published soon on the initiative of the Hayagitak publishing-house and poet's daughter, Anahit Charents. The Selected Poetry will also include poet's unpublished works. L. Hakobian also said that they had applied to RA government with the suggestion of marking Charents' jubilee solemnly, but they refused motivating by the fact that 110th anniversary is not considered a jubilee. "If in Ukraine every year they consider Shevchenko's birthday as a jubilee, why can't we glorify our genius properly?," L. Hakobian said. In the words of Levon Ananian, Chairman of Union of Writers of Armenia, Charents was able to unite the past, present and future of Armenian people in his creation. "The 110th birth anniversary and 70th anniversary of tragic death of Charents is marked this year. Declaring 2007 as Year of Charents, we should do our best to return the literary values to the youth, as well as to present the great poet's poetry in a new way to the international community," L. Ananian said. In the words of Anahit Charents, though poet's life lasted only 40 years, it was not a usual life, but "stormy 40 years of life" of the great poet, which ended on the half-way of his creative activity. "Charents' life became a selfless devotion to his people, his homeland. The Armenian people adored the poet and the poet adored the people. Charents believed in the future of his people. The very things make Charents stay live, thanks to them he will accompany the generations," the poet's daughter said.

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