Presbyter
Saint Nicholas was born in 1889 in the village of Savelievka, Nikolaevsky district of Samara province, in the family of priest Nikolai of Amasiy. In 1906, he graduated from the first class of the Samara Theological Seminary. He began his service to the Church in 1908, initially as a psalmist, then as a deacon in the church of the village of Semenovka. In 1917, he was ordained as a priest and served in the city of Pugachev, and later in the village of Smorodina. In 1922, he returned to Pugachev, where he became a dean.
On October 2, 1934, he was arrested for 'anti-Soviet agitation.' He was accused of hiding counter-revolutionary activities. He was subsequently exiled to Kazakhstan for three years. On November 25, 1937, he was arrested again and on December 1, he was sentenced to 10 years in a corrective labor camp. He passed away in places of confinement on December 26, 1938.
