Matthew Gusev
Martyr
Martyr Matthew was born on August 9, 1868, in the village of Nahabino, Moscow province. He was an active churchman and a member of the church council. In 1933, he was arrested for failing to fulfill agricultural tasks, but the sentence was overturned. In 1937, while discussing the closure of the church, he expressed his views on the Soviet government and the closing of churches. On September 7, 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned in Taganka prison. Doctors recorded his almost complete loss of vision. On October 10, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment in a labor camp. Matthew Ivanovich passed away on January 18, 1938, in Siblag and was buried in an unmarked grave.
