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27 May 2012

Vardaton


100 years ago in Tiflis (Tbilisi) poet Hovhannes Tumanyan and artist Gevorg Bashinjaghyan invented "Vardaton" (Feast of Roses), a holiday designed to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the great gusan Sayat-Nova.
Armenian community in Georgia celebrate Vardaton on the last Sunday of May. In 2012 diaspora celebrates the 300th anniversary of Sayat-Nova.
Milena Oganesyan, an activist of the Armenian community, shoote the Feast of Roses, which was held on central square of the Old Tbilisi.