Background
Mikhail Sado was born on June 9, 1934 in Leningrad.
Mikhail Sado was born on June 9, 1934 in Leningrad.
He was a linguist of Semitic languages and was fluent in many other Assyrian dialects. He taught Hebrew in Russian Orthodox seminaries. He obtained his doctorates in Oriental Studies at Leningrad University in 1951.
Sado was one of four principal leaders who established the Russian Social Christian Union for the Liberation of Peoples.
He spent thirteen years (1967–1980) in prison during the Soviet Union because of his religious activism. Mikhail Sado’s origin goes back to Hakkari, a village of Levon north of Tiari.
His father was Challo and his mother Mariam. She was one year old when her family was forced to leave the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics for Iran under Stalin’s order.
She was raised in Iran and returned to the Soviet Union in 1962.
During Soviet rule, the government buried many communists in the gardens of this monastery to desecrate the Christian faith. This church is the seat of the metropolitan of Saint St. Petersburg. Rabban Estepanos speaks Assyrian fluently.
Mikhail Sado’s older son (a transportation business owner) funded this publication.
Sixty Assyrians in Leningrad were killed under Joseph Stalin"s order. A memorial monument in their remembrance was erected in Saint St. Petersburg on August 27, 2000.
More than 1,000 Assyrians in the entire Soviet Union were killed under Stalin’s order.