 He may have garnered the most attention for his portrayal of Niccolò Paganini in the 1982 Soviet television miniseries.He starred in "Smerch" which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.On 24 August 2010, Msryan died in Yerevan, at the age of 72, from leukemia.