Agrippina Ivanovna Lesina was born on July 6, 1897, in the village of Belyaevo, Tula Oblast. In 1913, she became a novice at the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Monastery in Belev. After the monastery was closed, she worked as a seamstress in the artel 'Red Producer,' without abandoning her prayerful endeavor. On December 16, 1937, she was arrested and accused of 'underground monasticism' and 'counter-revolutionary activity.' In response to the threats from the investigator, she stated that she had not engaged in anti-Soviet activities. On December 30, 1937, the troika of the NKVD sentenced her to the highest measure of punishment. On January 8, 1938, on the day of the Feast of the Most Holy Theotokos, the martyr Agrippina was shot. Her burial place became a mass grave at the 162nd kilometer of the Simferopol highway.
