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    EXCLUSIVE: KEEPING UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS CIRCA 1900! HOW KIM'S ANCESTORS HEEDED PROPHET'S WARNING OF LOOMING SLAUGHTER TO ESCAPE RURAL ARMENIA FOR A NEW LIFE IN THE U.S

    The Daily Mail, UK
    Feb 6 2015

    Kim Kardashian's ancestors escaped before Armenian Genocide of
    1915 A prophet warned them 'terrible times' and war was coming -
    and both did More than one million people eventually died in the
    invasion that followed But Kim's great, great grandfather Saghatel
    Kardashian heeded prophecy So did Hovhannes Miroyan on the other side
    of her incredible family tree A hundred years after the atrocity,
    their distant relatives became TV stars after ancestor left for the
    U.S. and became a garbage truck driver Kim now planning to visit
    Armenia on the tragedy's hundredth anniversary MailOnline discovered
    a treasure trove of pictures of the Kardashian family

    By Will Stewart for MailOnline

    The extraordinary escape from the 'Armenian Genocide' of Kim
    Kardashian's ancestors - thanks to a 'prophet' who urged them to
    uproot to America - can be revealed today for the first time.

    MailOnline has unearthed a treasure trove of images showing the reality
    TV star's ethnic Armenian forebears who fled the tsarist Russian empire
    in the early 20th century, many of whom obeyed the advice of the sage.

    Known at the time as the Kardaschoffs, in Russian style, the family
    made their way from their home village of Karakale in the late 19th
    Century to German ports. From there, they travelled to a new life in
    America on the passenger vessels SS Brandenberg and SS Koln.

    By doing so, they 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.

    One hundred years after the deadly holocaust decimated their ancestral
    home, the Kardashians have become one of the most influential families
    in America.

    The most famous of which is Kim who has chosen this year, on the
    hundredth anniversary of the atrocity, to visit Armenia for the
    first time.

    But her lavish lifestyle, the expensive houses, an army of followers
    who hang on her every tweet, the marriage to a musical superstar
    would not exist if her ancestors had ignored the warning of a child
    'prophet'.

    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. He married the doughty
    Luciag Chorbajian, born in 1853.

    The couple wed in Erzurum, which is now in Turkey, in 1867 but escaped
    along with their daughter Vartanoosh Mironyan, born in 1886, in the
    early 20th century.

    Vartanoosh's distinctly blonde daughter Haigoohi Arakelian - known
    as Helen, born in America in 1917, the year the Bolshevik Revolution
    rocked the Russian Empire - was Kim's grandmother, who later married
    into the Kardashian clan.

    The glamorous and 'dynamic' Helen wed Arthur who ran the largest
    meat-packing business in southern California.

    Helen's son Robert, a celebrity lawyer who died of oesophageal cancer
    in 2003, married Kris Houghton and fathered the 21st Century's biggest
    reality TV stars Kourtney, Khloe, Robert Jr and most famous of all
    - Kim.

    Their mother Kris eventually married Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner
    and together they raised two more TV personalities, Kendall and Kylie.

    The flight to freedom of Arthur's parents and grandparents from
    the village of Karakale - today a snow-covered and entirely Muslim
    outpost in eastern Turkey where the stone ruins of the old Armenian
    homes still stand - came later than many in this community.

    It was as if they had sought to cling on against the rising ethnic
    violence and persecution.

    The Kardashians - or Kardaschoffs - like other branches of Kim's
    paternal kith and kin were ethnic Armenian, but they were also
    religious rebels, at odds with the orthodox faith in their homeland.

    They had already fled persecution once before, from another location
    deeper in Armenia.

    'The village bullies harassed and insulted them, dug into their tombs
    and (violated) the corpses of the deceased - hanging them on trees,'
    explained Joyce Keosababian-Bivin, whose ancestors also came from
    Karalala, and whose family is linked by marriage to the Kardashians.

    'Because of that they wrote a letter of complaint to Nicholas II.'

    The tsar decreed that they could move to Karakale, close to the
    Russian military settlement, where initially they were safe in what
    was 'a modern village, with beautiful buildings and wide streets'.

    Here, they became close to incoming Russian protestants against the
    Russian Orthodox Church.

    They were a sect called the Molokans, literally translated as
    'milk-lovers', so-called because they drank milk, and other banned
    foods, on fast days.

    Some were known as Jumpers, who leapt in the air, raising their hands
    high, during church services. They were pacifists and, crucially,
    adhered to the power of prophecy.

    The legend has it that in the 1850s, an 11-year-old Efil Klubnikin
    penned an apocalyptic forecast despite being apparently illiterate.

    'Those who believe in this will go on a journey to a far land, while
    the unbelievers will remain in place,' the boy prophesied. 'Our people
    will go on a long journey over the great and deep waters...people
    from all countries will go there.

    'There will be a great war. All kings will shed blood like great
    rivers. Two steamships will leave to cross the impassable ocean.'

    In the first years of the 20th century, Efim renewed the warning
    that he made to stunned believers in Karakale as a child, saying his
    premonition was now coming to pass.

    'Efim called a meeting, he invited the elders from all the Molokan
    villages including the two elders of the Armenian Molokan church. He
    prophesied this was the time for them to leave Russia as there
    were terrible times coming, especially for the Armenians,' said Ms
    Keosababian-Bivin.

    Images he scrawled led locals to believe they should cross the
    Atlantic to the United States, but this young diviner also indicated
    they should not stop there, but trek to the west coast. He pointed
    them towards Los Angeles.

    America was, he said, 'a land of the living' while mass slaughter
    would engulf their homeland.

    Presciently, he urged them to go quickly - as he himself would do -
    and cautioned: 'The doors will close, and leaving Russia will be
    impossible.'

    Many families sold up their homes and land at knockdown prices,
    or simply fled, to escape the coming horrors.

    It is substantially due to the prophecy that many of Kim's forebears
    came to Los Angeles, a city where the clan thrived and made their name.

    But many were jeered as they left Karakale, now known as Merkez
    Karakale, and mocked for their belief in the prophesy of coming doom.

    Poignantly, the village is almost in the shadow of the magnificent
    volcanic Mount Ararat, supposedly the resting place of Noah's Ark
    when the world faced an earlier catastrophe, a fact which led some
    of the Armenians to believe they would be safe here.

    Yet all those who stayed in Karakale would pay with their lives.

    Records show that Arthur Kardashian's father and Kim's great
    grandfather, Tatos, was born in Karakale and later became known as Tom.

    Tatos heeded the warning and in September 1913, at the age of 17,
    found himself boarding the SS Koln from Bremen, Germany to Boston.

    He opened a rubbish collection business in Los Angeles and wed another
    Karakale Jumper immigrant, Hamas Shakarian, who travelled with him
    on the cramped passenger steamer from Germany.

    A few weeks earlier, Tatos' parents Saghatel 'Sam' Kardashian, then
    49, and Hrepsema 'Horom' Yuzbashian, then 43, had travelled on the
    SS Brandenburg from Bremen to Philadelphia, arriving on 2 August 1913.

    'Steerage passengers were jammed together much like cargo down below,'
    said researcher Margaret Odrowaz-Sypniewska.

    Their escape would undoubtedly save their lives. With the world
    engulfed in war, and Russia beset by revolution, the forces of the
    Ottoman empire moved in on the region.

    It became embroiled in what is variously known as the Armenia Genocide,
    the Armenian Massacres, and the Armenian Holocaust.

    Estimates vary but it is claimed around one million to 1.5m people
    perished in mass killings between 1915 and 1923.

    Significantly, perhaps, Kim has chosen this year to travel to Armenia,
    the land of her forefathers, for the first time.

    The Turkish government refuses to accept the label 'genocide', though
    many historians, international organisations and almost two dozen
    countries recognise it as such.

    Britain and the US have not done so, arguably to avoid upsetting key
    NATO ally Turkey.

    'When the Turkish army marched through the area in 1917, they committed
    unspeakable atrocities against the Armenian people in all the villages,
    including Karakale', said Ms Keosababian-Bivin.

    'The Armenia Genocide began and every inhabitant of Karakala perished,'
    wrote Matthew W Tallman, citing another Kim relative, Demos Shakarian,
    whose grandfather of the same name became a prominent Pentecostalist
    preacher in Los Angeles and was also Kim's great great grandfather.

    'Efim's prophetic words saved many lives in Karakale.'

    Another account recorded: 'The great World War One broke out, and in
    the terrible onslaught, when Turkey overran Armenia, every soul in
    Karakala was wiped out.'

    Kim went on the record in 2012 to call for a wider understanding of
    the tragedy that befell the Armenian people.

    'It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide,' she said. 'Until
    this crime is resolved, the Armenian people will live with the pain
    of what happened to their families.'

    In midwinter, the tiny village is deserted. It retains a 19th century
    feel, with horses still used by local farmers, as in the time of old
    Sam Kardashian's time.

    The scars of the past run deep, and now even professing links to Kim
    seems a matter of controversy here.

    A diplomatic source said: 'You must understand that with centenary
    of the genocide coming in April, and the Turks are deeply sensitive
    about anything that can act as a focus to the slaughter of the past.'

    There is also deep tension between the Turks and Kurds in the east
    of the country.

    One resident of Karakala, Muhammer Copur, 30, claimed two years
    ago that he was distantly related to Kim, because their great great
    grandmothers were sisters.

    Then a village shopkeeper, he found the linked after scouring the
    web on the village's only computer, it was claimed.

    'It's amazing - everyone is jealous,' he said at the time, though
    the name of the ancestor was not disclosed. 'All the villagers now
    want to know if they are related to famous sexy millionaires too. I'm
    hoping Kim will invite me to the US'.

    He added that his dream was: 'All I want is a cup of tea with her.'

    Two years on, and he pours cold water on the story, now denying there
    is any truth in it.

    'I don't want to speak about Kim Kardashian because she is so famous,'
    he said. 'If I say something, I can have problems.'

    Now working at a university in the nearby city of Kars, he said:
    'I don't want to speak about those topics because I'm under pressure
    from other villagers, and from the Turkish press.'

    He said that his family only moved to the village 'some time between
    maybe 1920 and 1930' - long after Kim's ancestors had left.

    His family are Terekeme, also known as Qarapapaq, he said, a Muslim
    group traditionally speaking a dialect of Azerbaijani.

    If - somehow - there is truth that one of Kim's former ancestors in
    Karakale remained behind, survived the 'genocide', and wed into the
    Copur clan - which would have required her converting to Islam - it
    would mean dozens of the settlement's present residents would also
    be related.

    Almost half the homes in the village today are occupied by his extended
    family members.

    His cousin Atilla Copur, head of the village administration, went on
    local TV to discount the links to Kim, however.

    'They said that Kim Kardashian's family was living in the village. But
    we don't know if it's true,' he said.

    There are no documents which prove a family connection between the
    Kardashians and the Copur's, he insisted, saying that archive searches
    had been conducted in Turkey.

    Yet there is no doubt the family did live here in his village, before
    being forced away by the real threat of barbarism.

    And existing Armenian gravestones in the local cemetery - though not
    visibly connected to the Kardashians - are evidence of this link.

    For old family photos of Kim's ancestors and videos go to
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2939622/Keeping-Kardashians-circa-1900-Kim-s-ancestors-heeded-prophet-s-warning-looming-slaughter-escape-rural-Armenia-new-life-U-S.html

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