The Life of Eduard Pogosyan. No One Told the Swallows It Was Forever (Russian-Language Edition)

They were leaving for the summer. Behind them were an apartment, an unfinished house and a courtyard where swallows flew until dark. Eduard Pogosyan was seven. His father had been killed. For a long time, the boy still waited for him to come home.

No One Told the Swallows It Was Forever follows Eduard and his family from Echmiadzin to Samarkand, Moscow, Kaliningrad and Los Angeles. He works in a factory and a bakery. He marries, becomes a father and starts again in America with little English. Eventually, he begins filming his repair jobs. Viewers come to know him as Handy Gurus. They like his humour and the mistakes he leaves in the footage. Most know little of what came before.

His father, Mher, is remembered in detail. The way he spoke. The books he read before bed. The toy ambulance he bought for his son and hid in a wardrobe. The night he took the boys out to build a snowman. The book follows his life, the circumstances of his death and what happened to the family afterward. It keeps the memories of those who loved him distinct from witness accounts and the findings of the courts.

Decades later, Eduard searches for witnesses, gathers documents and fights to have the case heard again. He chooses the law over revenge. He does not want another man's children to lose their father. In one year, he makes seventeen trips to Armenia. His wife stays with the children. She supports him, but reminds him that the time his family loses cannot be returned. He listens. When he believes he is needed in court, he flies again.

Then his own son learns that his grandfather was killed. The boy is seven. He goes to his mother and cries. Eduard comes to him and holds him. This time, the father is there.

Published by Yerevan Online Publishers, this illustrated edition is printed on premium paper. Family photographs and archival documents accompany the story of Eduard's life, from childhood to the family and work he has built today, and the lives of the generations before him.

Russian-Language Edition

Publisher - BookVAULT Publishing

Language - Russian

Case Bound - PPC

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Yerevan Online Publishers

Published Date - 2026-11-12

ISBN - 9781837491100

Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm

Page Count - 170