Presbyter
Saint Alexius was born on October 8, 1876, in the village of Astafyevo, Podolsk district of Moscow province. He graduated from the Perervinsky Spiritual School in 1891 and the Moscow Spiritual Seminary in 1897. In 1902, he was ordained a priest and served in the church in the village of Kasyakovo, and later in the village of Abakshino in the Bronnitsy district.
He was first arrested for collecting funds for the repair of the church and fined 250 rubles. He was arrested a second time for conducting a funeral without a death registration document and was again sentenced to a fine of 250 rubles.
In the late 1930s, during the persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church, he was arrested on the night of January 25-26, 1938, and imprisoned in the Taganka prison in Moscow. On January 29, the investigator interrogated him, accusing him of anti-Soviet agitation, to which he replied that he did not consider himself guilty of anything.
On February 8, the investigative materials were submitted for review by the NKVD troika, and on February 11, he was sentenced to death. Priest Alexius Lebedev was executed on February 17, 1938, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo shooting range near Moscow.
