Deacon
Saint Gregory was born on January 9, 1893, in the village of Salmanovka, Narovchatovsky district of Penza province. In 1914, he graduated from the Penza Theological School and was appointed as a psalmist in the Church of Saint Archangel Michael. He served in the army from 1914 to 1918. In 1919, he became a psalmist in the Protection Church of the village of Vysokoye, and on February 9, 1920, he was ordained as a deacon. He served in the Joseph-George Church in Tashkent and in the Church of Archangel Michael in his native village. On July 9, 1931, he was appointed to the Church of Saints Martyrs Adrian and Natalia in Losinoostrovsk. On April 20, 1935, he was transferred to the Petropavlovsky Cathedral in Kolomna, where he served until 1937.
On August 10, 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Kolomna prison, and then in the Taganka prison. Against him, false testimonies were signed. During interrogations, he rejected all accusations of participating in a counter-revolutionary organization. On October 9, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment in a labor camp, and he was sent to the Far East to the BAMlag.
Deacon Gregory Samarin passed away in BAMlag on July 11, 1940, and was buried in an unmarked grave.
