Deacon
The clergyman was born in 1885 in the village of Arkhangelskoye, Volokolamsk district of the Moscow province. In 1906, he was appointed as a psalmist at the Peter and Paul Church, and then served in various churches, including the Michael Archangel and Peter and Paul at the Marinin Hospital in Moscow. In 1915, he was ordained as a deacon.
Since 1934, he served in the Transfiguration Church on Transfiguration Square. On December 11, 1937, he was arrested along with other members of the clergy and imprisoned in Taganka prison. During interrogations, he did not confess to the charges of counter-revolutionary propaganda.
On December 20, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years in a correctional labor camp. On February 5, 1938, he arrived in the city of Lesozavodsk, where a new case against him and other clergymen began.
On March 12, 1938, interrogations of the priests began, who confessed to being guilty of counter-revolutionary conversations. On March 31, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced all to execution. On July 5, 1938, all arrested who survived to that day were shot, including him.
