Venerable Martyr Anastasia was born on October 8, 1873, in the village of Mashutino, Vladimir Governorate, into a peasant family. In 1895 she entered the Spaso-Vlakhernsky Monastery, where she labored in ascetic подвиг until 1927. After that she moved in with her own brother and took up sewing and agriculture. Anastasia went to a neighboring village for services, fulfilled the duties of a psalm-reader, and collected money to pay the church tax.
Anastasia Petrovna Titova was arrested on September 12, 1937, and placed in a local prison; on September 16 she was transferred to the prison in the city of Zagorsk. She was accused of anti-Soviet agitation, sentenced to eight years in a corrective labor camp, and sent to the Ivdel labor camp (Ivdel’lag) in Sverdlovsk Region, where she died on December 17, 1937. She was buried in an unknown grave in the cemetery of the settlement of Sama, Ivdel District, Sverdlovsk Region.
