(1897 – 1937)

Yeghishe Charents (Yeghishe Abgari Soghomonyan)

Yeghishe Charents told Gurgen Maharu that a doctor named Charents had come to Kars and had taken the “Charents” inscription on his signboard. The relatives of the teenage years give other explanations. According to Karine Kotanjyan, the poet was baptized Charents because he was a bad child. He was told so badly that Charents was left too. And Anushavan Jidejyan (Vivan) testified by the poet that the name Charents originated as a result of the phonetic movements of Alexander Pushkin’s poem “Insignificant”, the evil one is a tree species that grows in the desert, whose roots produce poison. From 1921 the literary name “Charents” became a civil surname for him. The poet later gave such a logical explanation to the choice of the name “Charents”. “Evil is very often hidden under the guise of good in the world, and I have given a so-called evil name to the good content of my soul.”