Hieromonk
Moses Nikitich Kozhin was born in the village of Olenitsa in 1868. In his youth, he decided to dedicate his life to God, went to the Solovetsky Monastery, where he took monastic vows and was ordained a priest in 1896. In the Solovetsky community, he served until its closure by the Bolsheviks in 1924. From 1926, having returned to his native village, he served as a priest of the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist, preserving Orthodox traditions. For this, he was persecuted. Hieromonk Moses was arrested on April 16, 1931, on charges of 'systematic anti-collective farm propaganda, hiding behind the banner of religion.' He was sentenced to three years of exile in a correctional labor camp. He died on September 7, 1931, in a Leningrad hospital with a diagnosis of 'scurvy, enterocolitis.'
