Presbyter
Saint Constantine was born on July 27, 1879, in the village of Georgiyevskoye, in the Rostov district of Yaroslavl province. He studied at the Theological School and was appointed as a chanter at the Church of Saint Panteleimon. In 1900, he passed the parish school examinations and became a teacher at the Church of Smolensk. In 1908, he was ordained a deacon, while later that July he became a priest at the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration. In 1911, he was appointed rector of the Church of Saint Nicholas and teacher in the village of Markovo.
In 1913, he received an advanced theological education. In 1919, he graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy and served as a parish priest until April 15, 1932, when he was arrested.
During the interrogations, he stated that he had not engaged in anti-Soviet propaganda and that he served only the Church of Christ. Nevertheless, he was found guilty, so that on May 10, 1932, he was sentenced to five years of exile in Kazakhstan.
After returning to Moscow in 1935, he was unable to find employment and therefore moved to Mozhaysk, where he continued serving the Church. He was arrested again on October 29, 1937, and got imprisoned. During the investigation, he denied any counterrevolutionary activity, yet he was once again declared guilty.
On November 17, 1937, the NKVD troika ordered his execution. The Holy New Martyr Constantine reposed on November 19, 1937, and was buried in an unmarked grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
