Martyr Apollinaria Tupitsyna

Martyr Apollinaria was born on December 24, 1878, in the village of Shelubin in the Velsk district of Vologda province. She received her education at a gymnasium in the city of Velsk. Before the revolution, she worked as a nurse, and after the revolution, she began to wander, earning a living in Moscow by washing laundry and working as a nanny. She devoted all her free time to the church. A false witness testified that he knew her as a "counter-revolutionary person." Apollinaria was arrested on September 17, 1937, and imprisoned in Butyrka prison in Moscow. On October 8, the NKVD troika sentenced her to execution. She was shot on October 13, 1937, at the Butovo firing range near Moscow and buried in an anonymous mass grave.