Presbyter
Saint Alexander was born on January 22, 1876, in the village of Sinykovo, Moscow Province, in the family of priest Peter Likharev. In 1896, he graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary and became a teacher at a parish school. On May 5, 1899, he was ordained as a deacon, and on June 26, 1920, he was ordained as a priest. On August 24, 1928, he became the rector of the Tikhvin Church. On July 22, 1930, he was transferred to the Epiphany Cathedral, and on March 25, 1932, he was elevated to the rank of protopresbyter. On November 27, 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Taganka prison, where he was accused of counter-revolutionary activities. On December 5, the NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment in a labor camp. On January 9, 1938, he arrived at the Suslovo station, where he was assigned to work on a pig farm. Father Alexander fell ill with dysentery and passed away on March 17, 1938, in the camp hospital. He was buried in a mass grave near the mill.
