Mikhail Pavlovich Sabinin (, ka, მიხეილ პავლეს ძე საბინინი, monk Gobron, ka, გობრონ; 1845–1900) was a

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- Georgian monk, historian of the

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and

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painter. He was born to the Russian priest from

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, Pavel Sabinin, whose wife was Georgian. Educated at the

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gymnasium in the 1860s, he then attended St. Petersburg Theologian Academy and attained to a

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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." �Пб., 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. 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

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. In 1882 he published also '' The Passion of Eustathius of Mtskheta''. Also in the 1880s he refurbished the chapel housing the relics of St. Nino at the Bodbe Monastery in Georgia. In 1898, he clashed with the office of the

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at Tiflis over his criticism of

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and was removed from Georgia to

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where he died of

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on May 10, 1900.Важа Кикнадзе. Михаил Сабинин – подвижник Грузинской Церкви
. ''Pravoslavie.Ru''. Accessed on September 3, 2007.

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Полное жизнеописание святых грузинской церкви (СПб., 1871)
(Complete Vitae of the Saints of Georgian Church t. Petersburg, 1871) by Mikhail Sabinin. ''Iakov Krotov Library''. Accessed on September 3, 2007. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sabinin, Mikhail 1845 births 1900 deaths Artists from Tbilisi 19th-century historians from the Russian Empire Artists from the Russian Empire Writers from Tbilisi Members of the Georgian Orthodox Church Christian monks from Georgia (country) Russian Orthodox monks 19th-century historians from Georgia (country) Deaths from pneumonia in Russia Monks from the Russian Empire Georgian people of Russian descent People associated with Mount Athos People associated with Iviron Monastery Saint Petersburg Theological Academy alumni

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