Presbyter
Saint Alexander was born in 1868 in the Yuryuzan-Ivanovsky factory of the Zlatoust district of the Ufa province in the family of peasant Nikolai Makhetov. In 1887, he graduated from the Blagoveshchensk Teacher's Seminary and became a teacher and law teacher at the Sepychyevsky zemstvo school. Later, he worked at the Speshkovsky and Shlykovsky zemstvo schools.
On November 26, 1894, he was ordained as a deacon at the Michael-Archangel Church in Kungur and appointed as a teacher in the first grade. In 1900, he was transferred to the Novo-Usolsk Spaso-Preobrazhensky Church and became a teacher at the church-parish school. On June 8, 1901, he passed the exams for the priesthood, and on June 2, 1902, he was ordained as a priest at the Trinity Church in the village of Lyönva. He was appointed as a law teacher at the women's school in the same village.
He was elected a member of the benevolent council for the years 1912–1914. In the autumn of 1918, Priest Alexander Makhetov was arrested by the Bolsheviks, who tortured him by chaining him to a cross and stabbing him with bayonets, after which he was shot.
