 He attended the prestigious Berberian Varjaran (High School) and studied under famed principal and pedagogue Reteos Berberian (Who was the founder and principal of the school as well).He began his literary career in the local "Massis", Arevelk, and "Hayrenik" Armenian newspapers.He joined the Hnchakian political party but fled to safety in Paris, France in the 1890s when the Ottoman government began persecuting Armenian political activists.