This remarkably talented actress was one of the few artists who helped Armenian arts reach world fame through her career.

[1][4] After the Turkish sultan issued a decree banning Armenian plays in the Ottoman Empire in 1878, Siranush was forced to move.

Some of her best roles included Marguerite Gautier in "The Lady of the Camellias" by Dumas fils, Medea in "Medea", Zeynab in "Betrayal" by Alexander Yuzhin (Sumbatashvili), Ophelia in "Hamlet" by Shakespeare, Teresa in "Sister Teresa" by Luigi Camoletti [it], Johanna d’Arc in Schiller’s "Maid of Orleans", Kruchinina in "Guilty Without Guilt" by Ostrovski and others.

She not only played the role, but “lived” and “relived” and was almost like Eleonora Duse, despite the fact that critics compared Siranush more with Sarah Bernhardt.

This always angered Siranush and on one occasion she wrote the following: “…Why does my small Armenian nation want to incorporate the persona of another actress in me for appreciation?