Yeghishe Charents House-Museum
Memorial apartment of a Soviet-era poet, furnished with his desk, piano and library as he left them.
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This guide to the Yeghishe Charents House-Museum in Yerevan opens with seven thousand lines of unpublished poetry buried under a garden bed for seventeen years. It follows the poet Charents, who lived in this apartment on Mashtots Avenue until his arrest in 1937, and his young confidante Regina Ghazaryan, a fifteen-year-old orphan he had befriended years earlier and the only person he trusted with his final unpublished work. Stand among the desk, the Underwood typewriter and the grand piano that still fill the rooms he left behind.
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