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Visuals dedicated to influential Armenians of all time.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Yerevan, Armenian SSR, 1979

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

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

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

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

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Komitas smiling

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

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Mariam and Eranuhi Aslamazyans, 1939

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

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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