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*When he was only 8, his uncle shot his father allegedly accidently.
*In 1915 while migrating to the [[Eastern Armenia]]his uncle left his mother, sister and her family, died Gurgen's grandmother, later he lost his relatives and along with other refugees went to the Eastern Armenia.*In 1915 sheltered in the orphanages of [[Dilijan]] and [[Yerevan]], where he got acquainted with [[Charents Yeghishe]].*In 1917 began Mahari's creative biography when his first poem was published in the magazine "Work" ("Աշխատանք") under the name "G. Arpuni".*In 1918 published poems in the magazines "Work", "Van-Tosp" and many others.*In 1936 was arrested, and on August 20, 1947 was exempted from exile, returned to Yerevan, where his wife had already abandoned him, and his mother died.*In November, 1949 was once again exiled to Siberia as an immoral element, but this time as a free exile, not as a detainee, and in summer of 1954 was exempted and returned to Yerevan.*During the second exile, got acquainted with his second wife, a Lithuanian woman Antonina Povilaityte, got married in 1952 and had two children, a boy and a girl.*On July 16, 1969 died in Palanaga, leaving the novels "The Youth" and "Brave Nazar" half-written and was buried in Yerevan.*One of the streets of Yerevan's Erebuni administrative district and School №176 in Yerevan bear Gurgen Mahari's name.
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