Mikhail Sabinin
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-Georgian
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monk, historian of the Georgian Orthodox Church and iconographer.
He was born to the Russian priest from Tver
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, Pavel Sabinin, and a Georgian woman. Educated at the Tiflis gymnasium in the 1860s, he then attended St. Petersburg Theologian Academy and attained to a magister degree
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for his work History of the Georgian Church until the End of the 6th Century ("История грузинской церкви до конца VI в." [СПб., 1877]), the first comprehensive treatment of the subject produced in Russian. He travelled in several regions of Georgia, studying monuments of Christian architecture, copying frescos and icons, recording legends and collecting manuscripts. In St. Petersburg, he was tonsured a monk and given the name Gobron after a 10th-century Georgian saint
Gobron
Gobron also known as Mikel-Gobron or Michael-Gobron was a Christian Georgian military commander who led the defense of the fortress of Q'ueli against the Sajid emir of Azerbaijan. When the fortress fell after a 28-day-long siege, Gobron was captured and beheaded, having rejected inducements to...
. In 1882, he published The Paradise of Georgia (საქართველოს სამოთხე; St. Petersburg, 1882), a voluminous lithographed edition of biographies of important Georgian Orthodox Christian saints. In the 1880s, he served at the famous Iviron Monastery
Iviron monastery
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on Mount Athos
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. In 1882 he published also The Passion of Eustathius of Mtskheta
Eustathius of Mtskheta
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In 1898, he clashed with the office of Russian
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exarchate at Tiflis over his criticism of Russification
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and was removed from Georgia to Moscow
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where he died of pneumonia
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on May 10, 1900.