Actress Arus Voskanyan

The photograph shows the great Armenian actress Arus Voskanyan, whose life and art were entirely devoted to the theatre. She has long curly hair, a thin braided band on her head, and wears a light-coloured dress decorated with beads.

Arus Voskanyan was born in 1899 in Constantinople and from her teenage years performed on stages in various cities, shaping her own distinctive acting style. Later she became one of the leading actresses of the Sundukyan Theatre in Yerevan, and her name remained in the history of Armenian theatre as a symbol of devotion and purity of art.