Voskanyan, Arus Tigranovna

Arus Tigranovna Voskanyan (nee Darbasyan; April 28 ( May 10 ), 1889 , Constantinople - July 20, 1943 , Yerevan ) - Soviet Armenian actress.

Arus Tigranovna Voskanyan
arm Արուսյակ Տիգրանի Դարբասյան
Date of Birth	May 10, 1889 ( April 28, 1889 ) ( 1889-04-28 )
Place of Birth	Constantinople , Ottoman Empire
Date of death	July 20, 1943 ( 1943-07-20 ) (54 years old)
Place of death	Yerevan , Armenian SSR , USSR
Citizenship	Ottoman Empire → the USSR
Profession	actress
Theater	Armenian Theater after Sundukyan
Awards

Born in the capital of the Ottoman Empire . She spent her young years in Ankara and received a good education. She began to play on stage in Constantinople in 1908. In 1910 she moved to the Russian Transcaucasus and settled in Baku , where she became a member of the Baku Armenian troupe, in which she became famous for the roles of Ophelia and Desdemona in, respectively, “ Hamlet ” and “ Othello ” by William Shakespeare and Sona and Susan in, respectively, “ Evil Spirit ”and“ Namus ” Shirvanzade . She married Joseph Voskanyan, an actor of the same troupe.

In 1917 she moved to Tiflis (now Tbilisi), where she began to play in local theaters and was a member of the Armenian Drama Society; Since 1921, having moved to Yerevan, it has become one of the leading actresses of the 1st State Theater of Armenia (since 1937 it has been called the Armenian Theater named after Sundukyan ). In 1935 she received the title of People's Artist of the Armenian SSR . After the start of World War II, she acted in hospitals and enterprises as a master of artistic expression. She died in 1943 from typhoid fever.

Critics noted the filigree development of details in her acting style, the mastery of stage speech and the refined stage form, as well as emphasized the desire of the actress to give classical images a modern sound. The most famous roles are Antigone (" Antigone ", Sophocles ), Nora (" Doll House ", Ibsen ), Anush ("Uncle Baghdasar" Paronyan ). Talently performed both tragic roles: Katerina ( Ostrovsky 's Storm ), Lady Macbeth (Shakespeare's Macbeth ) and comedic: Suzanne ( Beaumarchais 's The Marriage of Figaro ), Katarina (Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew). She played a lot in performances based on plays by Russian writers ( Kruchinin in Ostrovsky’s guilty guilt , Panov in Trenev ’s Lyubov Yarovoy , Maria Nikolaevna in Simonov ’s Russian People, and Lunacharsky ’s Poison in Rome ), especially Maxim Gorky ; the most famous are the roles of Nastya in The Bottom and Rachelle in Vass Zheleznova . Through her activities, Voskanyan contributed to the rapprochement of Armenian theatrical art with Russian theater culture and its integration into the global theater processes.

People's Artist of the Armenian SSR (1935). Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR (01.25.1927) ^[1] .