Presbyter
Saint Martyr Dmitry was born on October 26, 1880, in the village of Bolshie Sorochintsy, Poltava province, in the family of a Cossack, Konstantin Legeydo. In 1904, he graduated from Tiflis Theological Seminary and was ordained as a deacon, and later as a priest, serving in the church in the village of Neberdzhayevskaya. During the Civil War, in 1918, he intervened for an arrested Red Army soldier and saved his life by regularly delivering food to the prisoners.
In August 1931, he was appointed to serve in the Ascension Church in the city of Gelendzhik. His active pastoral work attracted the attention of the OGPU, and on April 21, 1932, he was arrested for anti-Soviet religious activities. During interrogations, the priest asserted that the servants of Christ were undergoing torment and that the Judgment would come soon.
On November 28, 1932, he was sentenced to three years of exile in Kazakhstan, where he worked as a cashier-accountant. On September 11, 1937, the priest was arrested again and imprisoned in the Chimkent prison. On November 19, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years in a concentration camp, and on January 21, 1938, he arrived at the BAMLAG.
On March 13, 1938, he was characterized as a notorious work refuser. On March 31, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution; however, on March 23, 1938, Priest Dmitry Legeydo passed away and was buried in an unmarked grave.
