Presbyter
Anatoly Dmitrievich Ivanovsky was born on February 16, 1863, in the village of Pektubayevo, Yaran district, Vyatka province, into the family of a priest. After graduating from the Vyatka Theological Seminary, he served as a psalmist in various churches. In 1895, he returned to the diocesan service and was ordained as a deacon, and later as a priest, where he served for 17 years, conducting educational work in church-parish schools.
With the onset of persecution against the Church after the 1917 revolution, Priest Anatoly was arrested on September 17, 1918, on charges of counter-revolutionary agitation. Despite his innocence and fidelity to his ecclesiastical duties, he was sentenced to death and executed on October 30, 1918, near the city of Urzhum.
A.D. Ivanovsky was rehabilitated on July 1, 1992, and on June 23, 2008, he was canonized among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
