Presbyter
Saint Alexander was born on August 15, 1875, in the village of Krivandino, Yegoryevsky district of Ryazan province. In 1890, he graduated from the Zaraysk Spiritual School and entered the Ryazan Theological Seminary. In 1895, he was ordained as a deacon, and in 1897, he became a priest of the Kazan Church under construction. In 1900, the church was consecrated. In 1925, he was elevated to the rank of protopresbyter and appointed as a dean. In 1930, he was sentenced to six months of imprisonment but was acquitted. In 1937, sensing his impending arrest, he said: 'They will probably take me soon.' On the night of November 15 to 16, he was arrested and imprisoned. On November 27, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Protopresbyter Alexander Sakharov was shot on December 3, 1937, at the Butovo firing range and buried in an unmarked mass grave.
