Presbyter
Nikolai Ivanovich Lyubomudrov was born on April 11, 1862, in the village of Yurkino, Yaroslavl Province. He was the eldest of six children in a family of a psalmist. In 1877, he graduated from the Poshekhonsk Spiritual School and entered the Yaroslavl Spiritual Seminary, which he graduated from in 1884 with first-class honors. He served as a psalmist in the Church of the Nativity of the Theotokos in Yaroslavl, and in 1887 he was ordained a priest and appointed to serve in the village of Latskoe, where he lived for almost 32 years.
In Latskoe, he became a spiritual shepherd for his parishioners, engaging in active spiritual and educational work. He established the first library-reading room for peasants in the district, conducted public readings, fought against drunkenness, and enlightened the population. Father Nikolai was a teetotaler and condemned the consumption of alcohol.
In 1912, he was awarded by the diocesan archbishop with a pectoral cross and the Order of Saint Anna of the third degree for his educational activities. In 1918, during the revolution, he became a victim of the 'Red Terror.' On October 20, 1918, he was shot without trial or investigation, being executed by a punitive detachment. His death occurred on the Dimitrievskaya Saturday.
After the shooting, his body was buried without rites, but is revered by local believers as the grave of a holy martyr. Sofya Petrovna, his wife, endured many humiliations and abuses as the widow of a shot clergyman. She passed away in 1951 in Leningrad.
