Hieromonk
Aleksey Semyonovich Zadvorov was born in 1882 in the village of Korepovo, Yaroslavl Province. He received his primary education in a rural school. In 1901, he entered as a novice in the Yugskaya Dorofeevskaya Monastery, where he took monastic vows. In 1912, he was ordained as a hierodeacon, and later as a priest. In 1922, he was sentenced to one year of imprisonment for concealing monastic valuables. After returning to the monastery in 1923, he remained there until its closure in 1924. After the chapel was closed, he served in the village of Zakedy. On April 1, 1934, he was arrested and sentenced to 5 years in a labor camp for counter-revolutionary activities. On November 1, 1937, he was arrested in the camp, accused of 'condemning the Constitution' and sentenced to execution. He was shot on November 21. Blessed Aleksey was glorified by the Archdiocesan Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
