Mikhail Sabinin

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The Glory of Iberia , painting by Mikhail Sabinin in the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta

Michail Sabinin ( Georg. მიხეილ საბინინი , Russian Михаил Павлович Сабинин , religious name Gobron ; * 1845 ; † May 10, 1900 in Moscow ) was a Russian - Georgian monk , historian of the Georgian Orthodox Church , hagiographer and painter of religious images.

Sabinin was the son of Pavel Sabinin, a Russian priest in Tver , and his wife, a Georgian. After high school in Tbilisi in the 1860s, he attended the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy and earned his master's degree with the work History of the Georgian Church up to the end of the 6th century ( История грузинской церкви до конца VI в. , Printed in 1877), the first comprehensive treatment of this topic in Russian.

He traveled to different landscapes in Georgia and studied the monuments of Christian architecture. He copied frescoes and icons , recorded legends and collected manuscripts . In Saint Petersburg he received the tonsure and the monk name Gobron.

In the 1880s he lived in the famous Athos Monastery of Iviron . In 1882 he published The paradise of Georgia (საქართველოს სამოთხე), a comprehensive volume with Lives of the most revered in Georgia Orthodox saints. In the same year he published the Passio of Eustathius of Mtskheta , which is counted among the oldest documents in Georgian literature.

In 1898 he came into conflict with the Russian exarchate in Tbilisi because he had criticized the Russification of Georgia. He was transferred to Moscow. He died two years later at a pneumonia .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ His painting is based less on icons than on the popular Western sacred art of his time.
  2. ↑ Важа Кикнадзе. Михаил Сабинин - подвижник Грузинской Церкви pravoslavie.ru (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Sabinin, Mikhail
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gobron, Michail; მიხეილ საბინინი (Abkhazian); Сабинин, Михаил Павлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Georgian monk, historian of the Georgian Orthodox Church, hagiographer and painter of religious images
DATE OF BIRTH 1845
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1900
Place of death Moscow