daughter, and was summoned to the Headmaster's office. There he met Andranik, and when Vratsian explained why he had hit his daughter, Andranik thanked Vratsian for disciplining her. Vratsian was also a close friend of Drastamat Kanayan (Dro), with whom he lived in Beirut for several years; Vratsian wrote a book about Dro's life titled Mrrkatsin Dron ("Tempest-born Dro"). In Vratsian's memoirs, there are no accounts of his wife or any children. Oliver Baldwin's "Six Prisons and Two Revolutions" gives us the only piece of evidence about his direct family. Baldwin was an Englishman who became a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Armenian Army. He was at the house of Dr. Clarence Ussher (from the Near East Relief) when a messenger from Vratsian arrived asking Dr. Ussher to keep his wife and son safe when the Bolsheviks took over. However, according to Baldwin, Vratsian's son "died of exposure" while they were fleeing to Persia in the aftermath of the February Uprising. There is no other mention of Vratsian's wife and son. Legacy Many Armenian historians see Vratsian as a proper statesman in the traditional sense. Some characterize him as a stubborn ideologue (clinging to his Socialist principles to the end) while others note his pragmatism in diplomacy, politics, and war. Some Armenian writers have romanticized Vratsian's travels to Paris after the failed February 1921 revolution, comparing him to the last Armenian King, Leo V of Cilicia, who also traveled to France in an effort to convince European powers to save Armenia from foreign invaders. Vratsian is also romanticized because he was the last leader of an independent Armenia until Armenia's independence from the Soviet Union some 70 years later. References This article contains content from the defunct wiki, HierarchyPedia, used here under the GNU Free Documentation License 1882 births 1969 deaths Armenian nationalists Politicians from Rostov-on-Don Russian people of Armenian descent Armenian Revolutionary Federation politicians People of the First Republic of Armenia Prime Ministers of Armenia Armenian political scientists Agriculture ministers of Armenia 20th-century political scientists