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Yeghishe Charents

Died in 1937

Yeghishe Charents was born in Kars in 1897. Enlisted at eighteen in the Armenian volunteers of the Russian army, he fought on the Caucasus front, then studied in Moscow in 1916 and 1917 and took part in the fighting of the civil war. Settled in Yerevan, he travelled in 1924 and 1925 to Turkey, Italy, France and Germany, founded a group of writers and worked from 1928 to 1935 at the state publishing house. Dismissed, expelled from the writers' union and placed under house arrest in 1936, he was imprisoned in July 1937 and died in the prison hospital in Yerevan in November.

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