Martyr John was born in 1877 in the village of Krylatka, Mozhaisk district. In 1910, he established a wheel workshop, where he worked with his sons until 1930. From his youth, he was raised in piety and sang in the choir at the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God. In 1934, he became a member of the church council and the chairman of the auditing commission. In 1937, after the arrest of the priest, he went to Moscow for a new priest, which restored the divine services in the church. On February 5, 1938, he was arrested, and on June 7, the NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment in a labor camp. He was sent to Magadan, and then to Kemerovo region. In January 1940, the prosecutor proposed to terminate the case for lack of evidence, but nothing was heeded. John passed away on April 17, 1943, in the camp settlement of the Tayginskoye department of Siblag and was buried in the camp cemetery.
