Presbyter
Saint Nicholas was born on November 20, 1881, in the village of Bologoye, Pskov province, in the family of a psalmist. He graduated from school in Velikiye Luki and a theological seminary. In 1899, he was appointed as a psalmist to the church in the village of Bologoye, and in 1907, he was transferred to Velikiye Luki. On May 24, 1911, he was ordained as a deacon at the Trinity Church. In 1921, he was transferred to the Church of John the Baptist in Tver. In March 1928, he was ordained a priest and appointed the rector of the Epiphany Church in the village of Nikitskoye. After the parish was seized by the Renovationists, Father Nicholas served there for six months, after which he requested to be released from the clergy and began to wander. In March 1930, he was arrested for begging and sentenced to three years of exile in the Northern Territory. After completing his term of exile, he returned to Tver, where he served until his arrest in 1937. On August 10, 1937, he was arrested and accused of counter-revolutionary activities. On September 10, a troika of the NKVD sentenced him to execution. Priest Nicholas Pavlinov was shot on September 23, 1937, and buried in a common unmarked grave on the outskirts of Tver.
