The author was born near the village of Vagharshapat near Mount Ararat. The author talks about his life and adventures, from his earliest childhood to adulthood; moving to Georgia, from there to Russia, then to Persia and finally returning back to Russia, through the Caspian Sea. Araratsky's book is a monument of Russian literature at the beginning of the 19th century. and in its genre resembles the literature of travel and adventure, which always enjoys the love of readers. The book is unique in that it was written by an indigenous resident of Transcaucasia and contains valuable historical and ethnographic details of life.