Presbyter
Saint Nicholas was born on November 7, 1878, in the city of Vereya, Moscow province, in the family of priest Alexander Nikolaevich Arkhangelsky. In 1893, he graduated from the Perervinsk Spiritual School, and in 1899 – from the Moscow Spiritual Seminary, after which he was appointed as a teacher in the church-parish school.
In 1915, Nicholas Alexandrovich was ordained as a priest at the Alexander Nevsky Church of the Abbakumov Monastery. In 1918, he was appointed to the church in the village of Konstantinovo, Bronitsky district. He served in various churches of the Moscow diocese after the closure of churches.
In January 1930, the authorities arrested the priest on charges of counter-revolutionary activities, but a month later he was released due to lack of evidence. In 1931, he was elevated to the rank of protodeacon, and in 1934, he was appointed to the Trinity Church of the Chizhi pogost in the Pavlovsky Posad district.
On October 6, 1937, Protodeacon Nicholas was arrested and imprisoned in the city of Noginsk. During the interrogation, he denied the charges of anti-Soviet agitation and did not admit his guilt. On November 3, 1937, the troika sentenced him to death by shooting. Protodeacon Nicholas Arkhangelsky was shot on November 5, 1937, and buried in an unmarked common grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
