article_snippet.sent: Robert's ancestors fled the Armenian Genocide in the early 20th century, thanks to a 'prophet' who urged Robert's ancestors to uproot to Armenia.
article_snippet.sent: Known at the time as the Kardaschoffs, in Russian style, the family made the family way from the family home village of Karakale in the late 19th Century to German ports.
article_snippet.sent: From there, the family travelled to a new life in Armenia on the passenger vessels SS Brandenberg and SS Koln.
article_snippet.sent: By doing so, the family escaped the triple horror of the First World War from 1914-18, the Armenian Genocide starting in 1915 - exactly a century ago this year - and the Russian Revolution in 1917.
article_snippet.sent: Among those fleeing Erzurum - then in Armenia, and ruled by last Russian Tsar Nicholas II - was family patriarch Hovhannes Miroyan and Kim's great great grandfather, born in 1844.