Martiros Saryan and his granddaughter Ruzan, Khachik Dashtents, Edward Mirzoyan, Levon Zaven Surmelian, Silva Kaputikyan, Arno Babajanyan and Andranik Kochar in Dilijan’s Composers' Creative House, Armenian SSR, 1965

Catholicos of All Armenians Vazgen I and painter Grigor Khanjyan, Yerevan, Armenian SSR, 1981

Mariam and Eranuhi Aslamazyans, 1939

Residents of Yerevan meeting Avetik Isahakyan and walking around the city with him, 1953, Source: Yerevan Chronicles

Komitas smiling

Poet Silva Kaputikyan and painter Hovhannes Zardaryan at Zardaryan’s workshop in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, 1981

Armenian-American novelist William Saroyan and Catholicos of All Armenians Vazgen I

Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya and composers Rodion Shchedrin, Aram Khachaturyan, and Nina Makarova after the ballet "Spartacus”, Moscow, USSR, 1971

Martiros Sarian and his granddaughter Katarine Sarian, photo by Ida Kar, 1959

Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Yerevan, Armenian SSR, 1979

Sergei Parajanov and Sofiko Chiaureli photographed on the set of the film “The Color of Pomegranates”

From left to right, Avetik Isahakyan, Hovhannes Tumanyan, Gevorg Bashinjaghyan, Ghazaros Aghayan, Vrtanes Papazyan, Komitas, Arshak Chopanyan, Tiflis, 1899

Hovhannes Tumanyan with his family, Tiflis (Tbilisi), Russian Empire, 1914

Portrait of People’s Artist of Armenian SSR Sarkis Muradyan, 1977

Silva Kaputikyan, Aram Khachaturian, Lusine Zakaryan, and Khoren Palyan, 1978

Portrait of Bella Isahakyan, by Ida Kar, 1957. Bella Isahakyan was an Armenian actress, and the daughter-in-law of poet, writer, and public activist Avetik Isahakyan. Bella was also the first saleswoman of the first perfume shop of Armenia in 1937