Presbyter
The clergyman was born in 1867 in the Saratov province in a peasant Old Believer family. In 1885, he and his father joined the Orthodox Church. After that, he dedicated his life to missionary work among the Old Believers. In 1896, he was ordained as a priest and served in the Old Believer church of the village of Korneevka. In 1920, he moved to the Old Believer church in the city of Nikolaevsk. In 1932, he was forced to serve in the village of Sulak, where he worked for only 3 months. In 1934, he was arrested and accused of 'compiling and distributing manuscripts of anti-Soviet content.' During the interrogation, he stated that he considered his goal to be the struggle against atheism and was engaged in writing theological treatises. He was sentenced to 3 years of exile in Kazakhstan and returned in 1939. After his return, he lived in the city of Pugachev, where he continued to serve despite the lack of an official position. In September 1941, he was arrested again and sentenced to death, which was commuted to 10 years in camps. On October 25, 1942, he arrived at the Karlag of the NKVD, and on October 29, he passed away from right-sided pneumonia and exhaustion.
