She was born in 1889 in the village of Konstantinovo, Vladimir province, in a peasant family. In 1910, she entered as a novice at the Alekseevsky Monastery in Moscow. After the monastery was closed, she lived in an apartment, maintaining the monastic rule. On December 28, 1930, she was arrested and imprisoned in Butyrka prison. During interrogations, she expressed a negative attitude towards the Soviet government, as it 'closes monasteries and does not allow serving God.' On February 8, 1931, the venerable martyr was sentenced to three years of exile in the Arkhangelsk region, serving her exile in the city of Pinega. She returned to her homeland in 1934. On February 26, 1938, she was arrested again on charges of 'systematic counter-revolutionary agitation.' On March 8, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced her to execution for 'spreading counter-revolutionary rumors.' The martyr accepted her torturous end on March 14, 1938, at the Butovo firing range near Moscow. On August 21, 2007, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church decided to include her among the ranks of new martyrs and confessors of Russia.
