Presbyter
Saint Martyr Alexander was born in 1868 at the Yuryuzan-Ivanovsky factory settlement in the Zlatoust district of the Ufa Governorate. He was the son of the peasant Nikolai Makhetov. In 1887, he graduated from the Blagoveshchensk Teachers’ School and became a teacher and a preacher of the Gospel at the Sepychevsky School. He later started to teach at the Speshkovsky and Slikhovsky schools.
On November 26, 1894, he was ordained a deacon at the Church of the Archangel Michael in Kungur, while also being appointed as a teacher. In 1900, he was transferred to the Church of the Transfiguration in Novo-Usolsky, where he served at the parish school. On June 8, 1901, he passed the examinations required for ordination to the priesthood. On June 2, 1902, he was ordained a priest at the Church of the Holy Trinity in the village of Lyovna. He was also appointed to teach at the local girls’ school.
From 1912 to 1914, he was elected as a member of the charitable council. In the autumn of 1918, he was arrested by the Bolsheviks, who subjected him to brutal torture, chaining him to a cross and stabbing him with bayonets. Thus, Saint Martyr Alexander met a martyr’s death.
