Martyr Nadezhda (Nadezhda Petrovna Abbakumova) was born in 1880 in the village of Vanilovo, Bronnitsky district of Moscow province. In 1899, she married Vasily Sergeyevich Abbakumov, and they had four children. During the Civil War, her husband was killed, and Nadezhda raised the children alone. In 1925, she was elected to the church council, and from 1928, she served as the head of the Church of the Nativity of Christ in the village of Martynovskoye. In 1932, her property was confiscated due to unpaid taxes. In 1936, she invited the priest, Archpriest Peter Lyubimov, to serve, helping him defend the church from closure. On March 2, 1938, she was arrested and imprisoned in Kashira. On March 9, the NKVD troika sentenced her to execution. Nadezhda Petrovna was shot on March 14, 1938, and buried in an unmarked grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
