Martyr Alexey Borisovich Neidgardt was born in 1863 in Moscow into a noble family. He was a prominent public and state figure, holding the positions of zemstvo chief and provincial leader of the nobility, as well as serving as the governor of Yekaterinoslav. Since 1906, he served as a senator and a member of the State Council. In 1917, he was dismissed from service and settled in Nizhny Novgorod. As a former provincial leader of the Nizhny Novgorod nobility, he signed the appeal of the Nizhny Novgorod clergy congress, protesting against the confiscation of church property. In 1918, he was arrested along with his family and sentenced by the Nizhny Novgorod Cheka, after which he was executed along with Bishop Lavrenty, Father Alexey Porfirev, and his family.
