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LENIN GAVE MOUNTAIN ARARAT TO ATATURK AS GIFT
Tert.am
10:09 01.11.10
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian Marxist revolutionary, communist
politician and leader of 1917 October Revolution in Russia, gave
Mountain Ararat to the founder of the Turkish state Mustafa Kemal
Ataturk as a gift, writes Financial Times in article about Armenia
and its scenic nature.
Referring to Armenia being the first state to officially adopt
Christianity and the sufferings St Gregory Illuminator had to endure
in Khor Virap, the newspaper writes: "'The seventh-century monastery
of Khor Virap now stands above the pit where Gregory languished for
13 years. It is a popular postcard, the church framed against the
snowy backdrop of Mount Ararat, where the Ark came to rest, with
a foreground of vines purportedly planted by Noah himself. Ararat,
the supreme symbol of Armenia, now lies across the border in Turkey,
the gift of Lenin to Ataturk in 1921."
From: A. Papazian
Tert.am
10:09 01.11.10
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian Marxist revolutionary, communist
politician and leader of 1917 October Revolution in Russia, gave
Mountain Ararat to the founder of the Turkish state Mustafa Kemal
Ataturk as a gift, writes Financial Times in article about Armenia
and its scenic nature.
Referring to Armenia being the first state to officially adopt
Christianity and the sufferings St Gregory Illuminator had to endure
in Khor Virap, the newspaper writes: "'The seventh-century monastery
of Khor Virap now stands above the pit where Gregory languished for
13 years. It is a popular postcard, the church framed against the
snowy backdrop of Mount Ararat, where the Ark came to rest, with
a foreground of vines purportedly planted by Noah himself. Ararat,
the supreme symbol of Armenia, now lies across the border in Turkey,
the gift of Lenin to Ataturk in 1921."
From: A. Papazian