Recently I visited the Georgian writer and public figure and poet Ilia Chavchavadze’s House Museum in Tsinandali (Georgia), which was opened in 1946, when the poet’s 100th year of death was marked. Chavchavadze has done so many things to Georgian people that in 1987 by the decision of the Georgian Orthodox Church, he was ranked among the saints. Chavchavadze’s and his family members’ objects, manuscripts, furniture and exclusive utensils are kept in the museum. Chavchavadze has “imported” Europe to Georgia, which Georgian people do not deny. I mostly liked the fact that the guide of the museum stressed that Chavchavadze, among other languages had a wonderful command of Armenian, and my Azerbaijani colleagues experienced a delight when the same guide said that the carpet hanging from the wall of one of the rooms, as if, a sample of 17th century Azerbaijani carpet. The ubiquitous green of the park stroke the eyes, there was no cafe or excessive noise in the territory. It was felt what attention was paid to the museum. Generally, 2095 exhibits are kept in the museum. Armenians also do not have a dificit of museums, monuments and famous people, but there is a deficit of concern and care about them. The examples are numerous, starting from the well-known history of the “closed” market, ended with Tigran Arzumanyan’s stolen sculpture “Mountainous Dance”. The freshest example is “going around” in the Facebook social network for a few days, a photograph is circulated, which clearly shows how the tombstone of the prominent philologist and armenologist Hrachia Acharian at the Tokhmakh cemetery is destroyed…. And how many patriotic toast are made at the tables “bursting” from abundance of food…
Gohar HAKOBYAN
“Aravot” Daily
