Presbyter
Saint Andrew was born on August 12, 1868, in the village of Yasenok, Ryazan province, in the family of deacon Ioann Yasenyev. After graduating from the Ryazan Theological Seminary in 1889, he was ordained a deacon, and in 1891, he became a priest at the Vladimir seminary church in the city of Ryazan. In 1913, he was appointed to serve in the Assumption Cathedral in Egoryevsk and as the head of the Vishnev Church School. Later, he was elevated to the rank of protodeacon and appointed as the rector of the church of Saint Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow. In 1929, he was awarded a mitre and granted the right to celebrate the liturgy with the royal doors open until the Cherubic hymn.
At the end of 1936, a denunciation was made against Father Andrew, in which he expressed dissatisfaction with the Soviet government and the persecution of the clergy. In November 1937, Protodeacon Andrew was arrested and imprisoned in a prison in Egoryevsk. On February 27, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Protodeacon Andrew Yasenyev was shot on March 7, 1938, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo shooting range near Moscow.
