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Ким Кардашьян / Kim kardashian
Kardashian bodyguards infuriate bishop as they try to block church's entrance... before overwhelmed Kim visits the ruins of her modest ancestral homeBy MAIL ONLINE REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 17:54 GMT, 11 April 2015 | UPDATED: 02:59 GMT, 12 April 2015
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- She may have received a royal welcome, but Kim Kardashian has learnt that things operate a little differently in Armenia.
The reality star inadvertently infuriated a local bishop when she and her entourage visited the Cathedral of the Holy Mother of God while exploring the city of Gyumri on Saturday.
The reality star's bodyguards had tried to close the doors to keep journalists and onlookers away.
But the local bishop, Mikayel Adjapagian, sharply objected to obstructing worshippers from the church.
The bodyguards relented and the doors stayed open.
Kim was certainly learning a lot on her day sight-seeing in Armenia's second largest city.
Indeed the 34-year-old looked genuinely moved, not to mention a little overwhelmed, as she later visited the overgrown ruins of her modest ancestral family home.
With rusted sheet metal walls, no roof, and piles of rubble and debris littering the site, the long neglected location was surely a stark reality check for the pampered reality star.
Despite their impractical towering high heels the sisters and their group had walked down a muddy dirt road to find the home.
The poverty of the area was obvious, with mud splattered up walls, peeling paint and old cars parked outside.
Kim carried North as she and her sister Khloe looked around the site.
Her husband Kanye West also joined the group, carrying their daughter when she grew fretful on the outing.
Having being initially welcomed to the country like returning heroes, the sisters have since been on a steep learning curve about their heritage.
Showing them around are the Kardashian Kousins - Armenian sisters Kourtni and Kara, who with third sister Krista run a clothing store.
The two made sure to stick close to their glossy Los Angeles counterparts as they guided them around historic Gyumri.
Despite the devastation of two earthquakes in modern times, the city remains one of the few places to view authentic urban Armenian architecture.
Kim wore a long camel coat over a mid-length clinging dress in the same shade.
Ever one to self-promote, she dressed her 21-month-old daughter in clothes from the Kardashian Kids collection at Nordstrom.
Khloe kept her outfit simple in black, while the Kardashian Kousins rocked the latest in Armenian fashion, with the family resemblance noticeable.
So far the sisters and their cousins have had rather a political trip, attending a memorial commemorating the victims of the Armenian genocide 100 years ago.
The family have even met with Armenian Prime Minister Abrahamyan, who praised the family's contribution to 'international recognition and condemnation of the Armenian genocide'.
Kim, Khloe and their cousins also jointly promised to push for the recognition of the genocide, the government said.
The Kardashians apologised for not speaking Armenian but said they are learning their native language,' a government statement said.
'They pledged to continue the struggle for international recognition and condemnation of the Armenian genocide.'
Taking to her Instagram account to reflect on the experience, Kim said: 'It was an honor to meet the Prime Minister of Armenia, Hovik Abrahamyan who expressed how proud they are that we are proud Armenians and we have not forgotten our roots! #NeverForget.'
Kim and Kanye have also enjoyed a date night - no doubt allowing Kim to sample some of her favourite Armenian food - something she has a passion for.
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- THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
The Kardashian family have travelled to Armenia as the country prepares to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide on April 24th.
During the eight-day trip, the group and a film crew will visit Yerevan's genocide memorial and Armenia's National Archives to see documents about the Kardashian family ancestors.
Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their kin were killed between 1915 and 1917 as the Ottoman Empire was falling apart and have long sought to win international recognition of the massacres as genocide.
Turkey rejects the claims, arguing that 300,000 to 500,000 Armenians and as many Turks died in civil strife when Armenians rose up against their Ottoman rulers and sided with invading Russian troops.
Kim and her family have publicly supported international recognition of the massacres and in 2011, Kim wrote a blog post calling on Americans to recognise the slayings.
'Until this crime is resolved truthfully and fairly, the Armenian people will live with the pain of what happened to their families and the fear of what might happen again to their homeland,' the star wrote.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan received Kardashian and her family in the capital Yerevan and praised their contribution to 'international recognition and condemnation of the Armenian genocide,' his press service said.
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- KARDASHIAN'S CONNECTION TO ARMENIA
Robert Kardashian, father of Kim, Kourtney, Khloe and Robert Jr, was a third-generation Armenian American.
The celebrity lawyer, who passed away in 2003 just eight weeks after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer, passed on his pride in his heritage to his family, who have been vocal about their Armenian roots.
Robert’s ancestors fled the Armenian Genocide in the early 20th century, thanks to a 'prophet' who urged them to uproot to America.
Known at the time as the Kardaschoffs, in Russian style, the family made their way from their home village of Karakale in the late 19th Century to German ports. From there, they travelled to a new life in America on the passenger vessels SS Brandenberg and SS Koln.
By doing so, they escaped the triple horror of the First World War from 1914-18, the 'Armenian Genocide' starting in 1915 - exactly a century ago this year - and the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Among those fleeing Erzurum - then in Armenia, and ruled by last Russian Tsar Nicholas II - was family patriarch Hovhannes Miroyan and Kim's great great grandfather, born in 1844. He married Luciag Chorbajian, born in 1853.
The couple wed in Erzurum, which is now in Turkey, in 1867 but escaped along with their daughter Vartanoosh Mironyan, born in 1886, in the early 20th century.
Vartanoosh's distinctly blonde daughter Haigoohi Arakelian, known as Helen, was born in America in 1917, the year the Bolshevik Revolution rocked the Russian Empire. She was Kim's grandmother, who later married into the Kardashian clan.
The glamorous and 'dynamic' Helen wed Arthur who ran the largest meat-packing business in southern California.
Helen's son Robert married Kris Houghton and fathered the 21st Century's biggest reality TV stars Kourtney, Khloe, Robert Jr and most famous of all - Kim.
Their mother Kris eventually married Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner and together they raised two more TV personalities, Kendall and Kylie.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3035123/Kim-Khloe-Kardashian-turn-tourists-explore-North-Armenian-cousins.html
- в Ср 13 Апр 2016, 11:39
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Ким Кардашьян / Kim kardashian
A Look Back at the Kardashian Family's Humble Armenian Roots04/10/2015 AT 11:15 PM EDT
They might be multimillionaires and showbiz royalty, but back before the Kardashian family's forebears moved to the U.S., they lived a much more humble life in their native Armenia.
As Kim, her sister Khloé, cousins Kourtni and Kara, and Kim's husband, Kanye West, and daughter North pay an emotional visit to their father's ancestral home, the family can't help but be inspired by those who came before them.
Visiting the Mother Armenia statue in the capital city of Yerevan, Khloé wrote that the memorial "symbolizes peace through strength," adding that "it can remind viewers of some of the prominent female figures in Armenian history. Who took up arms to help their husbands in their clashes with Turkish troops and Kurdish irregulars."
While some of their ancestors might have done just that, a search of their immediate family's history reveals that the reality stars' great-great paternal grandparents fled their small Armenian villages of Erzurum and Karakale (in what is now Turkey) in the early 20th century, at a time when it was ruled by Tsar Nicholas II – the last ruler of Russia.
Their timely departure meant that they escaped the Armenian Genocide that began in 1915 and decimated their villages, and the Russian Revolution that followed two years later.
Kim's father, Robert Kardashian – a lawyer who died in 2003 and is best known for defending O.J. Simpson – was the son of Helen and Arthur Kardashian, whose grandparents on both sides left Europe for a better life in America in the early 1900s.
Kim was always close to her grandmother Helen, who had blond hair and light green eyes, which Kim said "was where Khloé gets her coloring from."
"Nana was seriously so much fun!" Kim wrote in a post on her website in 2008, a few months after Helen died.
"She was your typical Armenian grandmother: always cooking the best Armenian meals, our favorite which was this Armenian breakfast called 'beeshe!' " she remembered, explaining that it was a fried pancake topped with lots of sugar.
It's no doubt with those memories in mind that Kim Tweeted upon her arrival in Armenia on Wednesday that she couldn't wait "to explore our country and have some yummy food!"
The reality star and her sisters have often spoken about their Armenian roots. Kim was excited in 2011 when she learned the results of a DNA test on Lopez Tonight that revealed she was 94 percent Armenian and six percent Native American. "That explains all the hair," she joked.
But she also expressed her dismay when her photo appeared on the cover of Turkish Cosmopolitan magazine in April that same year – the same month that Armenia marks the genocide carried out by the Turks (Turkey does not officially recognize the Armenian genocide).
"My Armenian heritage means a lot to me and I've been brought up to be incredibly proud of my family's background and culture," she wrote on her blog.
Kim and Khloé have repeatedly expressed their excitement over their long-hoped-for visit to Armenia. And when they met with the country's prime minister earlier this week, "He expressed how proud they are that we are proud Armenians and we have not forgotten our roots!" Kim Tweeted on Thursday. "#NeverForget."
We're guessing those Kardashian ancestors would be pretty proud of their great-great grandchildren, too.
http://www.people.com/article/kim-khloe-family-history-armenian-roots-visit
- в Ср 13 Апр 2016, 11:34
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