Presbyter
Saint Alexander was born in 1898 in the village of Saltykovo, Bronnitsky district of Moscow province. After graduating from the Perervinsky Spiritual School, he entered the Moscow Theological Seminary, but did not complete it due to the revolution. In 1917, he began serving as a psalmist in the Assumption Church. In 1929, he was arrested but was acquitted. In 1933, he was ordained a priest at the Protection Church in the village of Khomutovo, where he earned the love of the parishioners for his meekness and selflessness. Arrested on March 3, 1938, he calmly accepted his fate. On June 14, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Priest Alexander was shot on July 1, 1938, and buried in an unmarked common grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
