“I feel like I’m meeting my family, whether they’re Italian or Spanish or from elsewhere. The audience is part of my family. The stage is where I’m happiest.”
When prominent archeologist and orientalist Nikoghayos Mar for the first time together with Toros Toromanyan entered fabulous city Ani in 1904 and launched excavations, he knew that Ani has keep lots of secrets for him, and now, after the centuries’ silence they should come up from the dust of oblivion. However, even experienced Mar couldn’t have supposed that he was to uncover single finding.
“On my Grandmother Mariam’s side, the story is well documented. Eghisapet Soultanian,(the woman holding the gun) is my Great- Grandmother. She was an Armenian Freedom fighter who put the duties to her country before her duties as a mother.”
“One of our employers who is a film-lover noted him while we were wondering if the visitor is Michael Caine or no”, a restaurant employer told, adding that he entered the restaurant like ordinary people.
“These chests, which according to the speaker have been covered with wonderful and symmetric ornaments, should have been meant for high-ranking officials, which were inside the church, “It’s very probable to think that they were remnants of some of Armenian kings, which were put into the chests and sealed with a paving.”
“We have revealed not only burials of elders, but also of children and newborns, which are concrete civilization indices, spread only in Ancient Rome, where particular attention was attached to burials of children. It turns out, the same situation was existent in Karmir Blur, and special love towards children, which is peculiar to us today, has been existent since ancient times.”
As an astrologist, through the calculations of astrological cycles, based on the studies of Nostredame, it’s possible to clearly calculate the way of human life, on the basis of which he created the Grand Calendar (Le Grand Calendrier), which is considered the second grand scientific heritage after “Century.”
He shoots “Mayrig” and “The Paradis Street 588” (the address of the Malakian family in Marseille) upon the proposal of his friend, Armenian writer Henri Troyat. It’s known that scenario for “Mayrig” had more than 40 variants, however, only one is being published and translated in 10 languages in 1985, with 200.000 copies.
To be in the south of France and miss the chance of visiting the Castle of If (Château d’If) is simply impossible. French literature lovers are probably familiarized with the famous “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas, where perennial tortures of the hero Edmond Dantès were being described.
“I was going to hand that letter to their Government next year, and in particular, to Erdogan, and I won’t open the brackets how it’ll be done. I will only say that I’m going to set another record next year, during which I’ll hand that letter. Presently I’m intensively preparing for implementation of that purpose.”
