Presbyter
He was born on January 24, 1889, in the village of Pokrovskoye, Yuryevetsky district, Kostroma province, into a peasant family. In 1910, he graduated from the teacher's seminary and worked as a teacher in the church-parish school of the city of Kologriv. In 1918, he was arrested as a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party and spent 4 months in prison, after which he became a devout Christian and left the party.
In 1921, he was ordained as a priest and served in Kostroma, then in the church of the village of Ilyinskoye. In 1923, he was arrested but soon released. In August 1929, he was arrested again and sentenced to 5 years in camps for 'anti-Soviet agitation'. After his release, he served in the Semyonovskaya church of the Puchyov district.
In September 1935, he was arrested again and sentenced to three years in camps, being transported to a camp near Temirtau. In the camp, he openly prayed, talked with the prisoners, read prayers and the Gospel to them. In 1937, he was arrested on charges of 'religious work among prisoners' and sentenced to death by shooting.
On September 20, 1937, he was shot. He was canonized among the ranks of the new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Orthodox Church at the Archpastoral Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in August 2000 for public veneration.
