Presbyter
Alexey Alexandrovich Velikoselsky was born into the family of a clergyman in 1865. After graduating from the Yaroslavl Theological Seminary in 1888, he served as a psalm reader, teacher, and instructor of religious studies at the parish school attached to the local church.
On November 12, 1912, Archbishop Tikhon (Belavin) of Yaroslavl and Rostov, the future Patriarch, transferred him to the Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God in the village of Dievo-Gorodishche of the Yaroslavl district, and later appointed him rector of the Trinity Church in the same village.
In 1918, during the Yaroslavl uprising, a White Guard detachment occupied the village of Dievo-Gorodishche, located on the border of the Yaroslavl and Kostroma provinces. On June 10, the Red forces stormed the village and arrested about one hundred of its residents, including Father Alexey Velikoselsky, rector of the Trinity Church, on the bell tower of which a machine gun had been found. The Bolsheviks considered him a White Guard supporter and executed him in Kostroma on August 30, 1918.
