Venerable Martyr Daria, born in 1870 in the village of Bogoslovo in the Ryazan province, in the family of peasant Peter Zaytsev, entered as a novice in the Borisoglebsky Anosin Monastery at the age of nineteen. In 1928, the monastery was closed, and she moved to the village of Kholmy, where she assisted in the church and was elected as the starosta. In 1937, she was reported for counter-revolutionary agitation, and on March 3, 1938, she was arrested. During the interrogations, she expressed dissatisfaction with the Soviet government and her willingness to die for her faith. On March 8, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced her to death by shooting. Venerable Martyr Daria was destined to be shot on March 14, 1938, and buried in an unmarked grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
