On March 15, Armenian National Library will host a presentation of a Russian translation of Vahan Minakhortyan’s book, Soghomon Tehlirian: Memoirs, Talat’s Terror.

The book features Soghomon Tehlirian’s memoirs of 1915 Genocide, time span before the assassination of Talat Pasha, a trial in 1921.

The preface to the book was contributed by Armenian Writer Silva Kaputikyan.

The book was published in 1953 in Cairo and republished in Yerevan in 1993. Russian translation is authored by Egor Sergiev.

Soghomon Tehlirian (1897-1960) was a native of Yerzka, and Armenian Genocide survivor. He assassinated the former Grand Vizir Talat Pasha in the Charlottenburg District of Berlin, Germany in broad daylight and in the presence of many witnesses on March 15, 1921 as an act of vengeance for his role in orchestrating the Armenian Genocide. Tehlirian was tried for murder, but was eventually acquitted by the German court.