the Russian port of Batum. He then travelled to Tiflis and joined the First Armenian Volunteer Battalion in the Russian forces. When in Tiflis he gave an account of his adventures, and the fate of the Armenian population of the Sivas vilayet, that appeared in James Bryce's report "The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire". He was with the Armenian Volunteer Battalion at the Battle of Erzinjan, and in Erzingan he organised a fund which rescued hundreds of Armenian women and children being held in Turkish and Kurdish households. He was killed leading a charge against Turkish positions during the Battle of Baku on 4 August 1918. See also Hampartsoum Boyadjian Andranik Ozanyan Arabo Yeprem Khan Keri Aghbiur Serob Hrayr Dzhoghk Kevork Chavush References External links Mourad de Sébasti. Par Isabelle Kaprielian-Churchill Мурад Себастаци 1874 births 1918 deaths People from Sivas vilayet Armenian fedayi Armenian nationalists Armenian people of World War I Armenian genocide survivors Armenians from the Ottoman Empire