Presbyter
Saint Martyr Dmitry was born on September 4, 1882, in Tver, in the family of a clerk of the Zemstvo district administration. In 1902, he graduated from the Tver Theological Seminary and began working as a teacher in a school and a psalmist. In 1906, he got married and soon accepted the holy order. In 1936, he was awarded the rank of protodeacon for nearly thirty years of diligent and fruitful service.
On December 6, 1936, Protodeacon Dmitry Nevedomski was arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary anti-Soviet agitation. During the investigation, he had to endure three interrogations and a confrontation. The priest was accused of participating in the Florovsk uprising of 1918, although the protocol of the Yaroslavl court commission recorded: 'In 1918, he did not participate in the uprising...'. Father Dmitry never engaged in anti-government activities and categorically denied the accusation of involvement in it.
He remained courageous and steadfast, and his hand never trembled while signing the interrogation protocols. On February 19, the sentence was pronounced: '6 years of imprisonment with deprivation of rights for five years'. Protodeacon Dmitry was sent to a correctional labor camp and never returned: he perished in custody on December 17, 1937.
