Saint Irina was born in 1899 in the village of Levino, Medyn district, Kaluga province, in the family of peasant Fyodor Frolov. In 1924, she became a novice at the Spaso-Borodinsky Convent. After the monastery was closed, she continued to work in the Borodinsky agricultural commune, established by the sisters on the territory of the closed monastery. In the late 1920s, the authorities decided to disperse all labor communes organized at monasteries. In 1928, when the authorities were dissolving the Borodinsky monastery commune, the monks entrusted novice Irina with the task of not leaving the monastery, but to live in it, as if to guard the monastery. She accepted this obedience and remained in the monastery despite all hardships. On May 19, 1931, the authorities arrested novice Irina, along with 14 other nuns and a priest of the Borodinsky monastery, accusing them of resisting the measures of the Soviet government. All of them were imprisoned in Mozhaysk prison. On June 10, 1931, the OGPU troika sentenced novice Irina to three years in a correctional labor camp. While in prison, she fell ill with pulmonary tuberculosis and was placed in the prison hospital. On September 30, 1931, novice Irina passed away in the hospital and was buried in an unmarked grave.
