Gabriel Bezfamilny
Martyr
Martyr Gabriel (Gabriel Gavriilovich Bezfamilny) was born in 1880 in Moscow. He finished school and worked as a plumber, serving in the church. In 1924, he moved to the village of Yaropelets in the Volokolamsk district. On October 21, 1937, he was arrested on charges of anti-Soviet agitation, but he did not confess to any wrongdoing. On November 23, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. On November 27, 1937, he was shot and buried in an unmarked mass grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
