Perchuhi Partizpanyan was born in 1886 in Edirne , Adrianople Vilayet , Ottoman Empire . She was the daughter of a wealthy family of Armenian heritage living in Turkey . Along with her sister , Satenik , she attended high school in Philippopolis , Bulgaria . At a young age , she became inspired by revolutionary ideas of Rostom and his wife Lisa Melik Shahnazarian , who were operating an Armenian school there . When she returned home to Edirne , at sixteen , she met , an intellectual and member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation , also known as the Dashnaktsutyun . He encouraged her to start the Armenian Women 's Union , ( ) , an organization to encourage other women to write and discuss Armenian literature and progressive ideas . Resuming her studies , Partizpanyan attended college in Geneva studying literature and pedagogy . She began to publish writings under the pseudonym '' Etna '' , including '' է բանաստեղծություններ Էտնա '' ( Is Poetry Coming ? ) and several short stories which would later be compiled and published as '' Փոթորիկէն վեր '' ( The End of the Storm ) . After completing her education , Partizpanyan returned to Turkey and began teaching first in Van and then in Giresun . In 1909 , she married Sargis Barseghyan , who had become the head of the Dashnaktsutyun in Constantinople . They would have a son before Sargis was arrested in March 1915 and executed on 30 April by the state as one of the first victims of the Armenian Genocide . After the massacre of intellectuals , Barseghyan took her son and fled to Sofia , Bulgaria , but soon settled in Tbilisi and resumed teaching . She taught at and later at , both Armenian schools located in the capital of the Tiflis Governorate , of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire . When Armenia gained its independence from the Russian Empire and established the First Republic of Armenia on 28 May 1918 , Barseghyan moved to Yerevan . Though not a women 's right 's activist , Barseghyan believed in public roles for women and along with other members of the Dashnaktsutyun worked to ensure that the new constitution provided for universal suffrage . She was socially active and worked with other women to provide care for orphans and refugees . When the first elections were held on 21 and 23 June 1919 , Barseghyan was one of three women elected to serve in the 80-member parliament . The other two women who served were and . They served until December 1920 , when Red Army of Russia invaded Armenia . With the collapse of the Republic , Barseghyan took her son and returned briefly to Sofia . Committed to serving on behalf of the Armenian people , she chose to live in exile in Paris , where she worked at the Nansen International Office for Refugees and continued her literary endeavors . One of her short stories received an award from the American anthologist , Edward J. O'Brien , and stories like '' Արփիկը '' ( Arpik ) and '' Օղակ մը շղթայէս '' ( One Ring Chain ) were translated into English and French . She published her memoirs , '' Խանձուած օրերը '' ( Days of Distress ) , as a series in the American journal '' Hairenik '' between 1938 and 1939
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Perchuhi Partizpanyan-Barseghyan