Presbyter
Alexei Alexandrovich Velikoselsky was born in 1865 into the family of a priest. After graduating from the Yaroslavl Theological School in 1888, he served as a cantor and teacher at the parish school of the local church.
On 12 November 1912, Archbishop Tikhon 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. He subsequently appointed him parish priest of the Church of the Holy Trinity in the same area.
In 1918, during the Yaroslavl Uprising, soldiers of the White Army occupied the village of Dievo-Gorodishche, located on the border between the Yaroslavl and Kostroma regions. On 10 June, the Red Army recaptured the village and arrested around one hundred of its inhabitants, among whom there was also Fr. Alexei Velikoselsky. The Bolsheviks regarded him as a supporter of the White Army and executed him on 30 August 1918.
