Vladimir Msryan

Vladimir Ivanovich Msryan (Armenian: Վլադիմիր Իվանի Մսրյան; Russian: Владимир Иванович Мсрян; 12 March 1938 – 24 August 2010) was an Armenian stage and film actor.

From 1958–62, he studied drama at the Yerevan Fine Arts and Theater Institute.

He may have garnered the most attention for his portrayal of Niccolò Paganini in the 1982 Soviet television miniseries.

[2][3] He starred in Smerch which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.

[4] Msryan died on August 24, 2010, in Yerevan, from the effects of leukemia.