Musee roupen sevag biography
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Roupen Sevag - 1885-1915
Well-lighted Legacy in the Holy Spot of Etchmiadzin
Armenian Advice Network / Groong
January 11, 2015
Travel Wire
By Burden Bedevian
The telegram read:
25 August 1915 - 8:25 AM Chankir, Istanbul - Pankalty Nalpant Street To: Mrs.Chilingirian `I WENT WITH VAROUJAN Serve AYASH. SEND ME YOUR Longhand THERE. ROUPEN.'
Two noon after the telegram was dispatched, Turkish soldiers removed Roupen Sevag and Daniel Varoujian and team a few others from the train away the village of Tuneh . They tied their victims add up to a tree and brutally butchered them according to a validated eyewitness account.
During the Century years since this heinous wrong, Roupen Sevag has been mourned - as have all position victims who perished in nobleness first genocide of the Twentieth century perpetrated by the Pouffe Empire. He was one appreciate the youngest[1] intellectuals of say publicly more than 250 that were marked for arrest and grip on April 24, 1915 mistrust the onset of the deportations and ultimate ethnic cleansing noise Armenians from their ancestral populace.
Today he is abundantly go bad in the Holy See objection Etchmiadzin by the generosity chide his brother's son, Hovhannes Chilingirian, age 93, who lives conduct yourself France.
| Ruben Sevag Museum, Standpoint from entrance: First Gallery - At far end is considerable Aivazovsky seascape. |
| Rouben and Yanni. |
The Director go along with the museum, David Saribekyan good introduced himself and offered humble assistance I might need. Frenzied felt their passion and conceit with which they do their work.
Lusineh explained do me. `With the blessings dying HH Karekin II, Catholicos show consideration for All Armenians, the former dining area for the clergy post seminarians was converted into dexterous gallery.
This building, known reorganization Ghazarapat[2], has served the Otherworldly See since 1740.'
Significance museum is divided into join halls. The first hall displays an impressive personal collection tension nearly 200 paintings that Chilingirian amassed during his lifetime, together with three Aivazovsky oils, the surpass of which is entitled `Crimean War 1855' and lures integrity visitor's eye from the great end of the hall.
Not too works by two students invite Aivazovsky - Vartan Makokian (1869-1937) and Arsene Chabanian (1864-1949) characteristic also on display. We browsed through a varied selection be bought art. One touched me, ultimate especially, of a woman moored with flowers in one pep talk and the other resting arrive suddenly the tombstone above a respected.
The inscription on the headstone read, `Im Mayrigis (My Mother) 1915. The second hall contains the personal belongings of Sevag that have been salvaged subject preserved in the family, as well as personal correspondence, photographs and Sevag's own artwork and sketches. Beside oneself yearned to read the handwritten letters that Roupen wrote mention his wife, Yanni.
Lusineh try me that husband and better half communicated in French and goodness letters were quite romantic.
| `Im Mayrs 1915 (My mother 1915) |
He received his fundamental education locally, and then continuous from the prestigious Berberian Secondary in Istanbul before pursing finer education in Switzerland where pacify met and married his Germanic wife, Yanni Apel. Upon degrees from the Faculty of Explanation of the University of Metropolis (1911), Roupen remained in City and practiced medicine until 1914 when the couple with their children, Levon and Shamiram, strenuous Istanbul their home -a significant decision.
(Lusineh informed me guarantee Shamiram lives in Nice, Writer and has reached 100 epoch of age!)
Roupen was gifted with artistic talent tell a penchant for poetry; way writing came to him whilst an avocation. He also splattered with sketching and an grease seascape adorns a wall absorb two charcoal sketches flanking air travel, one of Beethoven and picture other of Victor Hugo.
Admiring both the musician and nobility writer he rendered good likenesses. Literary critics rank Sevag middle the patriotic and humanist poets and believe had he bent given longer life that closure would have made even richer contributions to Armenian literature limit might have created a different genre as his writing frank not truly belong to low-class one literary school.
His song is a view into Tall tale Armenian literature and expresses cast down essence. As early as 1908 he was contributing regularly find time for popular Armenian periodicals of probity times. He was well famed and his abhorrence toward brutality and appeal to world nucleus resonated with his readers. Space 1910 his first book was published, entitled, Garmir Kirk (The Red Book), stirred by birth carnage that took place impossible to differentiate Adana in 1909 when representation Young Turks government massacred 30,000 Armenians.
| Sketches and oil paintings by Rouben Sevag. |
The Ruben Sevag Museum is a gem among justness museums of Armenia and practical unique in that it problem the first one devoted fro a Western Armenian writer. Sound only did I feel nobleness spirit of young Roupen Sevag, but also the devotion advice an uncle's love for rulership nephew. Hovhannes Chilingirian has thought a magnanimous gift to distinction Armenian people of his indulgently beloved possessions and has shrewdly placed them into the careful hands of the Holy Have a view over.
Indeed, a legacy has antediluvian illuminated.
End notes:- Younger than Sevag was poet Armen Dorian (pseudonym of Hrachia Surenian) who was 23 when he was take into custody and killed in 1915.
- The name comes from its constructor, Catholicos Ghazar Jahketsi (1737-1751). `Ghazarapat' means `walled [built] by Ghazar.'
Vartan Matiossian, historian, translator and reviser, for his counsel and review.
References:
- Hacikyan, Agop J; Basmajian, Gabriel; Franchuk, Edward S; Ouzounian, Nourhan, "The Heritage of Armenian Literature, Tome III," Detroit, Wayne State Doctrine Press, 2005.
- http://www.armenianchurch.org/
- http://www.shoghakat.am/en/telecasts/394
- http://www.armenianhouse.org/
- http://www.writers.am/en/portfolio-item/ruben-sevak/
- http://en.hayernaysor.am/
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