Elen Byuzand, a Participant in the Battle of Sardarapat

The photograph shows Elen Byuzand. She was born in Gyumri and lived for some time in Kars. She studied at the well-known Hovnanyan girls' gymnasium in Tiflis (Tbilisi), and in 1916 she entered the law faculty of the University of Warsaw. She was a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation party.

In 1918 she came to Armenia and took part in the Battle of Sardarapat. Later she worked as a secretary in the office of the parliament of the First Republic of Armenia. After the sovietisation of Armenia she was arrested. Later she moved abroad and lived in Iran and then in France, where she was engaged in public and literary activity.

The printed portrait shows an elderly woman with short curly hair and a string of beads around her neck.