Presbyter
Saint Constantine was born on May 31, 1877, in Moscow to the family of deacon Mikhail Pyatikrestovsky. He graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary and became a teacher at a parish school. In 1899, he was ordained as a priest and served in the Michael-Archangel Church. Later, he was appointed priest at the Nikolskaya Church, where he served for ten years, and then became the rector of the Vvedensky Church in Konyushennaya Sloboda.
In 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned in Taganka prison. During the interrogation, he denied any hostile views towards the communists, emphasizing that the Orthodox faith would not cease, despite the arrests of priests. On December 5, 1937, he was sentenced to ten years of imprisonment.
He died on March 6, 1938, in the hospital of the Mariinsky camp and was buried in an unmarked grave.
