Sabinin Mikhail Pavlovich I (Gebron) - historian of the Georgian church, Georgian by origin. After graduating from the Tiflis gymnasium, he entered St. Petersburg as a volunteer student. Theological Academy and received a candidate's degree for the essay "History of the Georgian Church until the end of the 6th century." (SPb., 1877). Even earlier, in 1871, he published “Complete Lives of the Saints of the Georgian Church.” Both works were written based on Georgian handwritten primary sources, which is why they present the subject in much greater detail than the researchers who preceded him, for example. Iosseliani. S.’s main and most valuable work: “Ancient Acts of the Georgian Church,” extracted from manuscripts and in Georgian, with S.’s Russian translation, published by the Academy of Sciences. Encyclopedic Dictionary of F.A. Brockhaus and I.A. Efron. - St. Petersburg: Brockhaus-Efron1890-1907 "Publishing house named after St. Ignatius of Stavropol" ( " Orthodoxy and the world. Electronic library" (lib.pravmir.ru).