Martyr Alexey Danilovich Zverev (1867/68 - 1918) was born into a peasant family and graduated from a primary school. He served as a missionary in the Moscow diocese. In 1917, he was elected as a delegate from the laity to the Local Council of 1917–1918. He was sent to Perm to investigate the murder of the holy martyr Andronicus, Archbishop of Perm.
On August 27, 1918, between Perm and Vyatka, the Council delegation was captured by Red Army soldiers, and the members of the delegation were shot. Local peasants buried the martyrs, but the authorities exhumed the bodies and burned them. He was canonized among the new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church at the Archpastoral Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000 for church-wide veneration.
