Venerable Martyr Eudokia was born on August 1, 1876, in Moscow. At the age of eleven, she and her sister Pelagia were sent for upbringing to the Moscow Strastnoy Monastery. After the monastery was closed, they, along with other nuns, rented a place on Tikhvinskaya Street, earning a living through handiwork and performing prayers. On October 25, 1937, the novice was arrested and imprisoned in Butyrka prison, where she was interrogated. The investigator accused her of anti-Soviet conversations, to which she replied that she had never engaged in such discussions. Witnesses confirmed that the nuns did not conduct anti-Soviet agitation. On November 19, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced her to ten years of imprisonment in a labor camp. She passed away on April 20, 1939, in the NKVD in the Novosibirsk region and was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1940, despite exculpatory testimonies, the sentence was not overturned, as the arrested had long been in the monastery and were considered socially dangerous elements.
