Anna Vasilievna Serova was born in the village of Bolshie Lomy in the Vetluzhsky district of the Kostroma province into a peasant family. In the 1920s, she worked at the Demyan Bedny Tapestry Factory in Kineshma, living in a dormitory at the factory. Together with the clergy of the Uspensky Women’s Monastery in Kineshma, priest Konstantin Razumov, and laypeople, she was arrested and imprisoned in the monastery, which had been turned into a prison. Anna Vasilievna was accused of counter-revolutionary agitation, as well as of hosting priests and attending divine services. She did not confess to being guilty of counter-revolutionary activities. On July 15, 1937, she was sentenced to 5 years in a labor camp and died in custody. She was glorified by the Hierarchical Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.
