There is scanty information about the life and times of H. Yeramyan in pedagogical and journalistic literature. Garnik Stepanyan briefly mentions in
biographical works and the Soviet Armenian Encyclopaedia that he was a figure of Western Armenian education, but there is incoherent information about the school founded by him. There are no specific studies of its pedagogical activity, and unfortunately no proper research has been carried out up to now of the 37 years of history of his school and his forty years of public and educational activity, all of which left a significant impact on the development of Armenian schools and culture. Through his great efforts, memoirs of Van and the Vaspurakan region were written in two large volumes, which is an exceptional historical document and an original source for Western Armenian life, particularly about the economic and political situation of the Van vilayet at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. If it weren’t for this work, the remarkable history of the rich and dramatic life and impressive chapters of pedagogical and social activity of this prominent educational figure would perhaps be forgotten. Besides as literature and in terms of an educational work, this memoir also has high historical and documentary value. The socio-economic and political situation of Western Armenia, especially the Van Vaspurakan region, from the 1880s up to the genocide and first-hand descriptions of the deportation of Armenians are discussed in the book’s first and second volumes.