Martyr Michael was born on September 24, 1893, in the village of Pochinki, Bogorodsky district of Moscow province. After finishing rural school, he engaged in peasant farming. During World War I, he was drafted into the army and served as a private until 1917. For many years, he was a regent in the Church of the Nativity of Christ in the village of Yamkino, and from the middle of 1937, he served as a psalmist.
On November 26, 1937, he was arrested along with the priests serving in the church and imprisoned in a prison in Noginsk. He was arrested at the end of April 1937, when he gathered singers for a solemn service, urging them not to participate in the demonstration.
The next day, the investigator interrogated him, but Michael Spiridonovich replied that he was not engaged in counter-revolutionary activities. On December 1, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment in a corrective labor camp. He died in custody on February 18, 1942, and was buried in an unmarked grave.
