In 1885 he left Tiflis's Nersisian School and worked in Akhaltsikhe, Akhalkalaki, and Alexandropol as a teacher.

Receiving the level of Candidate of sociological sciences, he worked for the Mkhitarians of Venice.

When here, and consulting with the notable scholars (Manuk Abeghian, T. Toramian, Hrachia Acharian, Leo, Melikset bek, S. Lisitsyan, Kh.

Samuelyan, S. Zelinski, etc., he founded the periodical Azgagrakan Handes (Armenian: Ազգագագրական Հանդես, "Ethnographic Magazine") in 1896.

On November 21, 1900, he founded the Armenian Ethnographic publishing house in Tiflis.