ABOVYAN MUSEUM EMPLOYEES CARRY OUR RESEARCH INTO THE WRITER’S LIFE

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
02.07.2009 22:24 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian people do not know the real Khachatur
Abovyan, whose 200th birthday is celebrated this year.

"The problem is that the soviet rule represented Abovyan as a teacher
and writer whose only aspiration for annexation of Armenia to Russia,"
Hovhannes Zatikyan, director of Abovyan’s house-museum, told a news
conference today.

The employees of the house-museum have organized 3 scientific
publications, proving that Abovyan was born in 1805 in Kanaker
district of Yerevan and died under unascertained circumstances. At
that he was not missing but died in exile in 1848.

"The school curriculum should be revised. The text books contain
information which doesn’t correspond to the facts," Mr. Zatikyan said.