Presbyter
Saint Alexander was born on February 19, 1873, in the village of Mormuzhino, Poshekhonsky district of Yaroslavl province. He received his initial education at the Uglich Theological School and then graduated from the Yaroslavl Theological Seminary in 1896. From 1896 to 1897, he served as a legal teacher in church-parish schools. In 1907, he married Nadezhda, the daughter of a priest. On February 19, 1908, he was ordained as a deacon, and on February 24, he was ordained as a priest of the Church of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, where he served until his arrest in 1937. In 1915, he became the dean of the 4th district of the Myshkin district.
His considerable knowledge of peasant farming helped him in his service to the parish. In 1934, he was arrested and sentenced to two years of exile. He was arrested again on November 3, 1937, accused of anti-collective farm agitation. During the interrogation, he denied his guilt. On November 5, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment in a labor camp. On January 15, 1938, he was recognized as an invalid and sent to the Buzhsky separate camp point. On July 1, 1939, he was placed in the camp hospital, where he spent two years. On February 19, 1942, as a severely ill patient, he was placed in a hospital, where he passed away on February 21, 1942. He was buried in the camp cemetery on February 24.
