DOCUMENTARY FILM DEDICATED TO MARTIROS SARIAN’S EXHIBITION SHOWN ON CENTRAL TV OF BELARUS
MINSK, APRIL 8, NOYAN TAPAN. “Minsk. Autumn. Sarian” 30-minutes
documentary film dedicated to the exhibition of Martiros Sarian’s
works held in Minsk in 2004, was shown on the Public Central TV on
April 5 in Belarus. The RA Embassy in Belarus initiated and assisted
the shooting of the film. As Noyan Tapan was informed from the RA
Foreign Ministry’s Press and Information Department, the exhibition
of Martiros Sarian’s works in the National Art Museum of Belarus
lasted two months from late September to late November, 2004. The
RA Embassy in the Republic of Belarus organized the exhibition with
the active participation of Martiros Sarian’s House-Museum and the
National Art Museum of Belarus. It was the first time when Sarian’s
works were exhibited on the territory of the Republic of Belarus. Wide
circles of Belarusian society had opportunity to get acquainted with
Martiros Sarian’s masterpieces: about 23 thousand visitors attended
the exhibition, 5 dozens of excursions were held, lecturs dedicated
to Sarian were presented. Heads of state and public organizations
of the Republic of Belarus, heads of diplomatic representations
accredited in the country, representatibes of creative intellectuals
were among the visitors. Sarian’s exhibition was widely enlightened
by mass media of Belarus as another important stage of development
of cultural contacts among the Armenian and Belarussian peoples and
one of the most important events of public political and cultural
life of Belarus in 2004.