Yeghishe Charents

Yeghishe Charents (Armenian: Եղիշե Աբգարի Սողոմոնյան; March 13, 1897, Kars, Kars Oblast, Russian Empire – November 27, 1937, Yerevan, Soviet Union) was an Armenian poet, writer and public activist. Charents was an outstanding poet of the twentieth century, touching upon a multitude of topics that ranged from his experiences in the First World War, socialism, and, more prominently, on Armenia and Armenians.

An early champion of communism, Charents joined the Bolshevik party, but as the Stalinist terror began in the 1930s, he gradually grew disillusioned with Stalinism and was executed during the 1930s purges.