Vertanes Papazian was a prolific writer who delved into subjects of social and national interest at the turn of the twentieth century.
He was born in Van, in a priest’s family, on April 12, 1866. He moved to Tabriz, Iran, as a child. After his schooling in Agulis and Tabriz, he studied at the Gevorgian Seminary in Etchmiadzin, but he could not graduate, for he had to start working at the age of fifteen…