WE HAVE LIBERATED OUR HOUSE
- But to what extent do we realize it?
Interview with SAMVEL KARAPETYAN, Head of the Armenian office of the Center of Studies of Architectural Monuments in Armenia
“Due to the power of spirit and arms, we liberated Shoushi 16 years ago, and the town is now viewed as a symbol of victory. However, apart from being a symbol of victory, Shoushi also used to be a large cultural center. To what extent are these two factors appreciated now?”
“There was a period in the 19th century when the population of Shoushi exceeded the population of Yerevan by 1/3. That’s to say, the town really had the largest Armenian population in the territory which historically belonged to Armenia and was now under the Russian protectorate. It had everything: a theatre, printing-houses and libraries. Naturally, investments were being made in such a town, as it is done in Yerevan now.
Tiflis had a larger population of Armenians in comparison with Shoushi, but it was not an Armenian town. There were simply a lot of Armenians here. And those who made their investments in Tiflis were devoid of the realization of the fact that they weren’t making their investments on the Armenian land. The same can be said about Baku.
Shoushi prospered, and I don’t know which of the two towns was the ‘Paris’ of the Caucasus in that period.
It had a population of around 45 thousand. In the 19th century the sects began penetrating into Shoushi, as they do in Yerevan now, and our church was not the defender of its flock, just the same way as it isn’t now.
Let me bring a simple example. According to written records (“Pigeon of Masis”, 1867) the history of the Armenian Church was taught in the Russian language in the Armenian schools of Shoushi. The local population asked the Catholicos to intervene and settle the problem. But Catholicos Makar was indifferent to the issue.
This state of neglect and lack of protection comes from those times, and it contributed to the activities of the sects. And although the Armenian society was an overwhelming majority there in comparison with the Muslims, the town remained absolutely unprotected when the confrontations with the Turks began. The Turks managed to set the entire Armenian district on fire. A few building remained wholesome by some accident; one of them was the “Reality College” of Shoushi (this is what we emphasized in the Soviet times) and the other was the hospital of the Zhamharyans.
Strange though it may seem, the “Reality College” of Shoushi was burnt by the people who had liberated the town from the Turks in 1992. There was absolutely no need to burn the Turksih district of the town which was saved from fire in the 1920’s. It was our house that we liberated. We banished the Turks who had thrust in it; they had come and taken possession of our property and used violence. We lost our patience and dismissed them from our house. And there was no need no burn the part of our house that was ever crossed by the Turks.
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“HAYOTS ASHKARH”
- 1847 Summit Meeting of the representatives of the Transcaucasian Armenian community.
- 1847 With the participation of the gentry and commoners, the National, Ecclesiastic, and Supreme Council is created in Constantinople. It is the first step towards the creation of the "Constitution".
- 1859 A Committee, consisting of 5 clergymen and 14 laymen, is struck in Constantinople to write the "Constitution". The Chariman was Rusinian.
- 1945 End of World War Two (known as the "Great Patriotic War" in the USSR).
- 1964 Death of Vahan Totomyants, professor and public figure.
- 1992 Shooshee (Artsakh) is liberated after 71 years of occupation by Azeri Turks.
- 1994 Protocol negotiated in the Artsakh War and signed in Bishkek (Kirgizstan) by the parliamentary speakers of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Artsakh as mediated by Presidents Boris Yeltsin of Russia and Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan. This was the first recognition of Artsakhs distinctiveness as a political and territorial entity in the negotiations. Azerbaijan occupied 750 sq. km. (15%) of Artsakhs territory, while Artsakh occupied 7059 sq. km. (8%) of territory considered to have traditionally been possessed by Azerbaijan.
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