Presbyter
Saint Andrew was born in 1869 in the village of Lower Maslovo, Zaraysk district, Ryazan province. In 1882, he moved to St. Petersburg, where he worked as a servant in a tavern and studied part-time at a teacher's seminary. From 1890 to 1921, he worked as a teacher in the schools of the Zaraysk district. In the early 1920s, he fell ill and lived on the support of his son, attending the Church of the Nativity of Christ in the village of Pronyukhovo, where he served as a psalmist.
In 1931, he was ordained a priest at the Annunciation Church in the village of Stepanovskoye. He was later transferred to the Trinity Church in the village of Trinity-Ozersky, and then to the Introduction Church in the village of Chanki. In 1935, he was again transferred to the Trinity Church.
In the summer of 1937, applications were submitted regarding his anti-Soviet activities. At the request of the NKVD, a report was compiled stating the necessity of eliminating him. On November 27, 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned in Kolomna prison, and then transferred to Taganka prison in Moscow. During the interrogation, he refused to admit his guilt.
On December 1, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Priest Andrew Shershnev was shot on December 8, 1937, at the Butovo firing range and buried in an unknown common grave.
