Saint Marfa was born in 1883 in the village of Arga, in the Temnikov district of the Tambov province. In 1914, she entered the Serafimo-Diveyevsky Monastery in the Nizhny Novgorod province.
After the monastery was destroyed, nun Marfa settled in the village of Razvilie, where she worked at the church. She was arrested on November 18, 1937, and imprisoned in the Nizhny Novgorod prison.
During the interrogation, false witnesses accused her of counter-revolutionary agitation. The nun did not confess to any wrongdoing and denied all accusations. On December 13, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced her to eight years of imprisonment in a labor camp.
On May 3, 1938, she arrived at the Karaganda camp, where she was assigned to general work. The camp conditions and hard labor proved to be unbearable for her, and she was sent to the hospital. Saint Marfa reposed on April 26, 1941, and was buried in the cemetery near the settlement of Spasskoye.
