YEREVAN.- Mayor of Gyumri Vardan Ghukasyan will buy the house of famous Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanyan, chairman of Armenian Writers’ Union Levon Ananyan told reporters on Tuesday. As he informed he had received a letter from Gyumri’s mayor in which the mayor stated that the Gyukasyan family was ready to donate money in order to buy Tumanyan’s house.

There were rumors earlier that Prosperous Armenia leader Gagik Tsarukyan was planning to buy the house but later those rumors were dismissed.

To note, on January 19 a group Armenian intellectuals led by Writers’ Union Chairman Levon Ananyan went to Tbilisi to clarify the matter.

After returning from Tbilisi Levon Ananyan announced that the house owner was an honest young man who had promised to give the house to the Armenian side if they give him a likewise house in return.

To note, it was informed that Hovhannes Tumanyan’s house-museum was to be sold. In the release, which was issued by Tbilisi’s Armenian community, it is noted that a section of the museum was sold to a businessmen, who now wants to sell the house-museum to a Georgian-Turkish company. And the latter plans to turn it into a boarding house for Turks. The company had also proposed Tumanyan’s great-grandson, Alen Tumanyan, to sell the second floor of the house-museum, but its proposal was rejected.