Presbyter
Saint Nicholas was born on February 8, 1869, in the family of priest Alexander Andreev in the city of Vindava, Courland province. He completed primary school and teacher's seminary. He was ordained as a priest to one of the churches in the city of Riga. During World War I, he was evacuated with his family to the Moscow province and appointed to serve in the Epiphany Cathedral in the city of Bogorodsk, where he served until his arrest in 1937. For his zealous and blameless service, he was elevated to the rank of protodeacon.
On November 26, 1937, the authorities arrested Father Nicholas, and he was imprisoned in a jail in the city of Noginsk. The next morning, false witnesses were interrogated, one of whom claimed that the priest had said to the believers after the service: “Orthodox, our twenty have been arrested by the communists, and therefore, to strengthen the faith, I ask you to come to the table and sign the sheet – do not let the Soviet authorities close our cathedral.”
On December 1, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced the priest to execution. Protodeacon Nicholas Andreev was shot on December 10, 1937, and buried in an anonymous mass grave at the Butovo range near Moscow.
