Hieromonk
Saint Euphronius was born on June 15, 1885, in the village of Menshikovo, Pskov province, into a peasant family. After finishing a rural school, he worked for a merchant until 1910, after which he became a novice at the Spaso-Eleazar Monastery. In 1922, he was ordained as a hieromonk. In 1928, the monastery was closed, and he served in the Resurrection Church in the village of Mansurovo, then in the Peter and Paul Church in the village of Luzhki, and in the Trinity-Borisoglebsk Church in the village of Anosino. In 1931, he was arrested along with the nuns for 'anti-Soviet agitation' and sentenced to five years in a concentration camp. After his release, he continued to serve in various churches until he was arrested again on October 7, 1937. On November 11, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to death, which was carried out on November 13, 1937. Saint Euphronius was buried in an unmarked grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
