Presbyter
Saint John was born on May 6, 1877, in Moscow to the family of deacon Vasily Yanushev. After graduating from the Moscow Theological Seminary in 1897, he entered the Kazan Theological Academy, which he completed in 1902. In 1903, he became a psalmist at the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, and on May 18, 1908, he was ordained a priest at the Savior Cathedral in Moscow. On September 22, 1917, he was transferred to the Annunciation Cathedral of the Kremlin, and on May 7, he was appointed acting sacristan. After the closure of all Kremlin cathedrals by the Soviet authorities, he became the rector of the church in honor of Saint Spyridon of Trimythous. He served until its closure in 1930, then he was appointed to the Church of the Nativity of Christ in Palashki. For his diligent service, he was elevated to the rank of protodeacon in 1920, awarded a palitza in 1924, and a cross with decoration in 1927. In 1935, he was appointed to the Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos in the village of Veshnyaki. On November 16, 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned in Taganka prison. On December 1, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Protodeacon John Yanushev was shot on December 8, 1937, at the Butovo firing range and buried in an unmarked mass grave.
