Martyr Andrew was born on October 30, 1882, in the village of Kitenovo, Klin district of Moscow province, into a peasant family. After finishing the village school, he helped his father, and in 1916 he was drafted to the front. Andrew was an active parishioner of the Church of the Elevation of the Holy Cross, where he served as a choirmaster and a member of the church council. In 1931, he joined a collective farm, where he took care of the horses.
With the onset of 1937, during the persecutions against the Church, Andrew began to attract the attention of the authorities. He was arrested on November 14, 1937, accused of anti-Soviet agitation. During the interrogations, he refused to admit his guilt, confirming only his active church activities.
On November 21, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment. Andrew passed away on June 11, 1938, in the Srednebel'sk corrective labor camp in the Amur region and was buried in an unmarked grave.
