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Pertchuhi is an Armenian public figure, pedagogue, writer. The wife of Sargis Barseghian (military, political figure).
Pertchuhi was born in 1886 in Edirne. She graduated from High School in Plovdiv, then she studied literature and pedagogy in Geneva. At the age of 16 she met her future spouse, revolutionary Sargis Barseghian, and together they organized a group to enlighten and propagate revolutionary ideas among Armenians. Pertchuhi was writing under the pseudonym Etna, her stories are summarized in a series entitled “After the Storm”.
After graduating, Pertchuhi began to give lessons in Giresun and Van, then she moved to Tbilisi and was a teacher in Hovnanian and Gayanian schools. After the proclamation of the First Republic of Armenia, she went to Yerevan, where she was elected a member of the parliament in July 1919 and was enrolled in the American Board of Foster Care. After the collapse of the Republic, she migrated from Armenia. For some time she lived in Sofia, then she finally settled in Paris where she headed The Nansen International Office for Refugees and was engaged in literary activities.
Sona Zeytlian, The role of the Armenian woman in the Armenian revolutionary movement, Los Angeles, California, 1992, p. 193 (in Armenian).