Presbyter
Saint Constantine was born on April 9, 1872, in the village of Alexeyevskoye, Moscow Province. In 1892, he graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary and became a teacher at the Nikolai-Bogoyavlensky school. In 1895, he was ordained as a priest in the Nikolskaya Church. Father Constantine served for more than forty years in the Nikolskaya Church, being a good shepherd. In 1925, he was elevated to the rank of protopresbyter and awarded numerous church honors.
In the early 1930s, persecutions against the Church began. In 1936, the ringing of bells was prohibited, and local atheists started to remove the bells. Father Constantine went out onto the church porch with an icon, and the fire, by the prayers of the priest, ceased at the very fence.
On October 4, 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned. On November 12, the NKVD troika sentenced him to death, and his son Boris to ten years of imprisonment in a labor camp. Protopresbyter Constantine Uspensky was shot on November 25, 1937, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo shooting range near Moscow. Boris Konstantinovich Uspensky died in Siblag on December 15, 1942.
