Deacon
The clergyman was born in 1884 in the village of Makshaevo, Kolomensky district of the Moscow province, in the family of deacon Vasily Troitsky. After graduating from the Kolomenskoe Theological School in 1901, he served as a psalmist in the Transfiguration Church in the village of Pochinki, Ryazan province. In 1924, he was ordained as a deacon to the same church. In 1930, for failing to deliver grain, he was sentenced to one and a half years of exile, after which he continued to serve as a deacon. Upon returning in 1932, he resumed his service in the church.
In January 1933, the authorities arrested the priest and active parishioners. During the interrogation, Deacon Dmitry admitted that he had relations with other clergymen but could not recall the details of the conversations. Witnesses confirmed that he complained about the oppression from the Soviet authorities. On May 19, 1933, the OGPU troika sentenced him to three years of exile in Kazakhstan.
In 1936, he returned to the village of Pochinki, where his family lived in the church watchman's house. His health was undermined, and he began attending the church as a parishioner. In 1937, new persecutions against the Russian Orthodox Church began. On September 5, he was arrested again, and his case mentioned counter-revolutionary agitation. During the interrogations, he denied the accusations, but on September 19, the NKVD troika sentenced him to death by shooting. Deacon Dmitry Troitsky was shot on September 21, 1937, and buried in an unknown mass grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
