The memoirs of Magardich Melkonyan are out of print!

On June 25, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. in the courtyard of the Ethnographic Museum at 69 Slavyanska Street, the book "My Hometown Burgas. Memories of the Time from 1930 – 1945" by Magardich Melkonyan. Its publication is part of a project of RHM - Burgas, approved and funded by the Ministry of Culture. Its compiler is Rositsa Topalova, curator in the Ethnography Department of the Burgas Museum. The text is accompanied by photos to make the memories and the idea of old Burgas even more vivid. The exhibition "Old Burgas through the eyes of Dr. Melkonyan", opened on May 15, 2024, which aroused interest and excited the citizens of Burgas, was the first activity of this project.
The book will be officially presented by Mitko Ivanov – a historiographer, local historian, artist, a man whom Dr. Melkonyan himself valued and loved.
In 1992, Dr. Magardich Stepan Melkonyan began to write his memoirs in a thick notebook in a large format – methodically and in detail, about the outlines of the city, neighborhoods and neighborhoods, public buildings and institutions, schools, bookstores, pastry shops, hotels and inns, port, consulates, crafts, beach, army, holidays....." Indeed, the city under its visible exterior hid many and many unsuspected phenomena and interpersonal relations..." He ends his memories with his biography, which is no less fascinating. Reading, as if you are walking along the streets of Burgas at another time with the old sweet-talking doctor who tells you, from time to time you stop to take a breath and he deviates from the topic for a while, but it is interesting and is another important touch to the description.
Dr. Magardich Melkonyan has made fourteen copies with his own hand in order to be true and accurate, so that everything he knows does not go away with him. And he knew a lot. Extremely inquisitive and with a broad general culture, he, like any intelligent person, has a sense of historicity, of preserving the memory of events, of people – known and unknown, of the atmosphere of the city, of life, which "sometimes slowly and imperceptibly, sometimes quickly and obviously, but changes, although small fragments of time give the illusion of constancy and immutability."
The book can be purchased at the presentation. The circulation is 500 copies.

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