Venerable Martyrs Xenia and Anna labored in the Uspensky Brusensky Monastery in the city of Kolomna, Moscow Province. Venerable Martyr Xenia was born in 1897 in the village of Chanki to the peasant family of Semyon Petrukhin. In 1913, she entered as a novice in the Uspensky Monastery. In 1919, she returned to her native village and began to help at the Vvedenskaya Church, earning a living by sewing blankets.
Venerable Martyr Anna was born in 1896 in the village of Chanki to the peasant family of Ivan Gorokhov; in 1914, she entered as a novice in the Uspensky Brusensky Monastery, and then returned to her native village to assist her elderly father.
In the early 1930s, both novices were arrested on May 22, 1931, and imprisoned in the Kolomna prison. During interrogations, they confirmed that they attended the Vvedenskaya Church and had conversations about food supplies.
On June 10, 1931, the OGPU troika sentenced them to three years of exile in Kazakhstan, and they were sent to Karaganda. In 1934, they returned to their homeland but did not abandon their devotion and continued to attend the church. On March 5, 1938, they were arrested again and imprisoned in the Kolomna prison.
On March 10, the investigator completed the investigation, and on March 12, the NKVD troika sentenced them to execution. On March 20, 1938, they were executed and buried in a common unmarked grave at the Butovo shooting range near Moscow.
