Yeghishe Charents was born '' ' Yeghishe Abgari Soghomonyan ' '' in Kars ( Eastern Armenia , then a part of the Russian Empire ) in 1897 to a family involved in the rug trade . His family hailed from the Armenian community of Maku , Persian Armenia . He first attended an Armenian elementary school , but later transferred to a Russian technical secondary school in Kars from 1908 to 1912 . He spent much of his time in reading . In 1912 , he had his first poem published in the Armenian periodical '' Patani '' ( Tiflis ) . In 1915 , amid the upheavals of the First World War and the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire , he volunteered to fight in a detachment on the Caucasian Front
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Yeghishe Charents