Khrimyan Hayrik, the ideologist of the Western Armenian liberation movement

Khrimyan Hayrik was the first to compile the curriculum and textbooks for the subject of Patriotic Studies. He founded a school in Varagavank that corresponded to the modern perception of schooling, with textbooks, a blackboard, a chair-table, and stationery. In addition, he founded the first periodical published in Western Armenia, “Artsui Vaspurakan.” It is no coincidence that the first Western Armenian liberation organizations and parties were founded in Van. The core of his activity is also the commitment to write an epic that reproduces the historical memory of the nation, which Garegin Srvandztyants undertakes.