Shahen khachatryan (Аrt critic): "Series of Grigor Khanjyan book illustrations are dedicated to the Armenian tragedy. The unique composition of the paintings, linear, impactful sounds enhance the bitter sufferings. In Paruyr Sevak’s “Unsilenceable Belfry” poem Grigor Khanjyan always depicted the genius musician Komitas as an high spirited shepherd with the nation. But when the extermination of Armenian occurs the light extinguishes and the darkness prevails…"

Shahen khachatryan (Аrt critic): "Series of Grigor Khanjyan book illustrations are dedicated to the Armenian tragedy. The unique composition of the paintings, linear, impactful sounds enhance the bitter sufferings. In Paruyr Sevak’s "Unsilenceable Belfry" poem Grigor Khanjyan always depicted the genius musician Komitas as an high spirited shepherd with the nation. But when the extermination of Armenian occurs the light extinguishes and the darkness prevails…"

This sketch is the only M.Sarian’s work directly depicting the subject of Armenian Genoside in Western Armenia. Apparently the artist has drawn an Armenian woman, mentioned by him in the book of his memoirs ‘From my life’. She managed to escape the Turkish massacre and had settled by the walls of St.Hripsime church. This woman was losing her black-eyed sons one after another making shrouds for them out of her dresses using her own her for sewing.

On the Exile Path: A fragment that approves the historic truth: Armenian mother in black, bearfoot, exhausted and starved, tightly carrying the infant in her hands is thinking only about one thing - how to save the life of her newborn child from sword of the Turk.