Presbyter
Saint Alexander was born on March 7, 1880, in the village of Nikol'skoe-Never'evo, Tver Province, in the family of priest Nikolai Kolokolov. After graduating from the Tver Theological Seminary, he was ordained as a priest in 1913 to the Nikol'skaya Church. Since 1914, he was a member of the Tver Diocesan Orthodox Missionary Society. For his service to the Church, he was awarded a pectoral cross in 1928.
The renewed persecutions at the end of the 1920s did not spare Fr. Alexander. In 1929, he was fined for practicing medicine, and in 1930, he was arrested and sentenced to imprisonment in a labor camp and exile. In 1933, after returning from exile, he was appointed as the rector of the church in his native village and was elevated to the rank of protopresbyter.
In January 1937, Fr. Alexander was arrested again. He was accused of the necessary baptism of a child, but the charges were dropped. On December 20, 1937, he was imprisoned. During interrogation, he refused to admit his guilt, asserting that he had served God all his life and could not renounce his faith. On December 27, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution, and on December 29, 1937, he was shot.
