Presbyter
Saint Alexander was born on August 25, 1884, in the village of Povidimovo, Alatyr district, Simbirsk province. In 1903, he graduated from the Apsharov Church Teacher Seminary and became a teacher at a parish school. He participated in revolutionary activities, but after the defeat of the Social-Democrat party, he began to reflect on the causes of what was happening and started to study the faith more deeply.
In 1908, he became a teacher-regent at the Knyazhukhinskaya parish school. In 1914, he was ordained as a priest and appointed as a missionary. Father Alexander organized religious and moral readings and a cooperative society.
Since 1916, he served in the Nikolaev Church. In 1932, he was elevated to the rank of protopresbyter. As a preacher, he was renowned, and his sermons drew believers from distant places.
On January 26, 1937, he was appointed rector of the Transfiguration Church. In November 1937, he was arrested on charges of anti-Soviet activities. The investigation lasted one day, and on December 3, 1937, he was sentenced to ten years of imprisonment in a labor camp.
He passed away on September 9, 1939, in the Bureinsky camp of the NKVD and was buried in an unmarked grave.
