Archimandrite
Born on April 20, 1879, in Moscow. He grew up in a peasant family, received no education, completed two grades of a city school, and became a shoemaker. Due to alcoholism and debauchery among the workers, he went to a monastery, where in 1912 he took monastic vows with the name Joasaph. He served as a deacon and hieromonk, being transferred to various monasteries, including the Nikolsky Old Believer Monastery in Moscow.
In 1921, he was ordained a priest and worked in the Moscow Land Department as a beekeeper. In 1924, he was appointed priest in the village of Aratskoye, where he faced difficulties in repairing the church and was arrested for collecting funds for repairs without permission.
In 1926, he moved to the Simsky Plant, where he also engaged in restoring the church. In 1927, he was arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary activity, but he denied all accusations, asserting that he had never been a counter-revolutionary. In 1930, after exile, he returned to Ufa and continued to serve in the Simonov Church.
In 1932, he was arrested again and sentenced to three years in prison, which he served in the Krasnovishersky camps. After his release, he served in the church in Taganka, then in the village of Nikolskoye. On November 27, 1937, he was arrested again and accused of counter-revolutionary activity. On December 5, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to death, which was carried out on December 10, 1937. He was buried in an unmarked grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
