Presbyter
Saint Alexius was born on March 16, 1881, in the village of Mineyevo, Dmitrovsky district of Moscow province. After graduating from the Vifanskaya Theological Seminary in 1899, he became a teacher at the parish school. In 1902, he was appointed as a psalmist in the Borisoglebsky church, and in 1909, he was transferred to the Bogoroditse-Rozhdestvensky church in Moscow.
In 1917, he was ordained as a priest at the Assumption church of the village of Bogoslov. He was appointed as a legal advisor at the Bulkovskaya zemstvo school. In 1920, he was awarded the nabedrennik, and in 1923, the skufia.
Since 1929, the authorities began to persecute the priest, and he was penalized. In the 1930s, while remaining in service, he worked in a collective farm as a blacksmith. After work, he performed the sacraments, not leaving his service in the church.
On November 25, 1937, he was arrested on charges of anti-Soviet activity. On December 1, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Priest Alexius Speransky was shot on December 10, 1937, and buried in an unmarked grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
