Presbyter
He was born on May 25, 1877, in the village of Malye Podberezy of Kazan Province to a peasant family. In 1896, he graduated from Kazan Teacher's Seminary and became a mathematics teacher. He met his future wife, Olga Grigoryevna Kitaeva, who taught the Russian language. After moving to the city of Osa, he decided to become a priest and entered the Theological Seminary, after which he was ordained as a priest at the Assumption Cathedral in the city of Osa. In 1917, the Trinity Cathedral was built, and he began to serve there.
Father Dmitry instilled in his children the skills to live according to the Gospel commandments from an early age. In 1922, the confiscation of church valuables began, and he refused to cooperate with the commission, for which he was arrested and imprisoned for about a year. After his release in 1923, he continued his ministry, not refusing help to those in need. He was repeatedly summoned to the GPU but refused to cooperate. In 1925, he was offered to become an обновленческий (obnovlensky) archbishop, which he also declined. The family was evicted from the church house, and they had to wander for a long time.
In the 1920s, he participated in debates on religious topics, despite his wife's warnings. After participating in three debates in Perm, he was arrested and sentenced to three years of imprisonment, which he served in salt mines in Solikamsk. He returned as an invalid with sick legs and a damaged spine. The authorities sent him to settle in the city of Kudymkar, where his wife and son came. In 1936, they moved to their eldest daughter's home in Maykop. In the autumn of 1937, at his wife's insistence, they returned to Osa, where he was arrested and sentenced to death by shooting, which took place on November 14, 1937. He was canonized among the New Martyrs of Russia at the Jubilee Archpastoral Council in 2000.
