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Saint Mstislava was born in 1895 in the village of Maloye Uvarovo to a working-class family. In 1913, while caring for her sick mother, she left her job and, after the death of her parents, in 1921, she departed from her brothers who had become members of the Communist Party. In 1930, she was tonsured into monasticism with the name Mstislava and continued her life in the Bogoslovsky Monastery, where she was arrested on May 31, 1931, along with other monks. During the interrogation, she boldly stated about the persecution of religion. On September 3, 1931, she was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a labor camp, having served her term in Svirlag, she returned to Kolomna in 1934, but was forbidden to live there. In 1936, she found work at a phonograph factory. On February 24, 1938, she was arrested again and accused of counter-revolutionary agitation. On March 2, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced her to death by shooting. Saint Mstislava was executed on March 10, 1938, and buried in an unmarked mass grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
