Presbyter
Saint John was born on February 18, 1867, in the village of Borodino, Klin district of Moscow province. After finishing primary school, he worked for merchants and then in the prosecutor's office. From 1895, he worked for large merchants, and after the revolution, he entered the People's Commissariat of Railways. In 1921, he dedicated himself to serving the Church, becoming a psalmist, and later a deacon in the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity.
In 1924, he was ordained as a priest at the Dmitrov Church. He served in various churches and was awarded a nabedrennik, skufia, kamilavka, and a pectoral cross. In 1937, he was transferred to the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.
On October 22, 1937, he was arrested on charges of anti-Soviet agitation. The investigation lasted a month, and on November 29, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Priest John Tarasov was shot on December 8, 1937, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
