Venerable Martyr Anna, born on March 25, 1882, in the village of Gnezdilovo, Kursk province, entered the Sorrowful Monastery in Moscow in 1903. She labored there until the monastery was destroyed in 1928, after which she lived in an apartment on Butyrskaya Street, maintaining the monastic rule and supporting prayerful communion with other nuns.
On January 17, 1938, she was arrested and imprisoned. During interrogations, she confirmed that she had provided assistance to nuns who had been exiled for counter-revolutionary activities and expressed hostility towards the Soviet government, which persecuted monastic life and closed churches. On February 14, the NKVD troika sentenced her to death by shooting.
Venerable Martyr Anna Efremova was shot on February 17, 1938, and buried in an anonymous mass grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
