In this article, the essential and primary features of the “essence of history” in the historical-scientific conception of Moses Khorenatsi are presented alongside a formulation of the preliminary definition of history that explicates his vision and understanding of history. The question of the “essence of history” is fundamental in regard to other questions about history. What is that entity and the exact object of research on which the “essence of history” is based and by which history is objective? In positive terms, the objectivity of the essence of history is primarily its capacity to have its own object of investigation. The temporal and passing being of the human self and human life in this world is the main principle presumption of history, and it truly dircts one to recognize history as a necessary need for mankind. And according to the historical-scientific conception of Moses Khorenatsi, significant past events that have, as such, an essential power and past events worth recounting may become and really do become a substantive subject matter to be narrated in history, and so they become an object of history.

 Whereas, in his historical doctrine history – one called to exist and existing by the meaningfulness of events in the past and present – is not identified merely asthose past stories, as the temporal dynamic world within them, but also as human life. History is not identified as his object of research. In his historical doctrine history is about to exist, becoming “narrated”. Of course, history is a spoken or written narration. But in his historical conception the necessary and preferable mode of being-of-history in general, as well as concretely for Armenian history, is not historical discourse, but just its written fixation, its historiographic form.