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Art is the expression of how we process our world. It’s not the critic who…

Lucille Apcar, author, businesswoman, and granddaughter of famed diplomat and humanitarian Diana Agabeg Apcar, passed…

Her prominent ancestors moved from New Julfa, Iran, to Paris, and then to Italy, where…

Born in Tiflis, she graduated from the Russian gymnasium in Tiflis and went on to…

Margarit Aleksanyan is one of the last representatives of the tradition of Armenian writer‑decorators.

A graduate of the department of agriculture of Tiflis Polytechnic Institute in 1926, Anahit Ananyan…

Born in New Julfa, Iran, Diana Apcar moved to Calcutta, India, at a young age.…

Sofya Arghutsyan-Yerkaynabazuk was born into a traditional aristocratic family in Tiflis (Tbilisi). She lost her…

Born in Beshiktash (Constantinople), she studied in Pera, in the Nurinyan school. After graduation she…

Born in Constantinople (Istanbul), Heranush lost her father at the age of three, which was…