EXHIBITION HALL IN KHACHATUR ABOVYAN’S HOME-MUSEUM TO OPEN IN YEREVAN EARLY IN NOVEMBER

PanARMENIAN.Net
21.10.2009 16:08 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Exhibition hall in Khachatur Abovyan’s home-museum
will open in Yerevan early in November. The hall which has a total
area of 600 sq. meters is divided into 12 sections.

Reconstruction complying with international standards cost AMD 20,
of which AMD 10 million was allocated by Government and the remaining
part was paid by sponsors, particularly VivaCell-MTS.

Khachatur Abovyan -an Armmenian writer and enlightener-democrat,
founder of new Armenian literature and new literary language,
pedagogue and ethnographer – was born in Kanaker, a village in the
vicinities of Erivani (Yerevan). He studied in Ecmiadzin and then,
in Nersisyan Seminary of Tbilisi (1824-26). Later he graduated from
Derpt (currently: Tartusk) university. Upon returning his homeland,
he devoted himself to teaching activity. Abovyan met a hostile attitude
by reactionary Armenian clergy and Tzarist officials for being against
dogmatism and formalism in school education. Beginning 1837, Abovyan
was a supervisor in a Tbilisi district college, and beginning 1843
he held the same post in Yerevan. On April 2 (14), 1848 Abovyan left
his home and never returned.