Presbyter
Saint Alexander was born on June 1, 1884, in the family of psalmist Ivan Mikhailovich Vinogradov in Moscow. He graduated from the Don Spiritual School in 1899 and the Moscow Spiritual Seminary in 1905. On October 1, 1909, he was ordained a priest and served in the Transfiguration Church in the village of Lyubertsy. In 1920, he served in the military, and in 1929, he was elevated to the rank of protopresbyter. In 1933, he became the rector of the Pokrovsky Church in the village of Perkhushkovo, where he served until his arrest.
In 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned. During interrogations, he denied the accusations of counter-revolutionary activity, asserting that he was only providing assistance to former exiled clergy. On December 5, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment in a labor camp. He died on September 22, 1942, from pellagra in the city of Svobodny and was buried in an unmarked grave.
