Martyr Nicholas Nikolaevich Nekrasov was born in 1872 in Moscow into the family of psalm-reader Nikolai Ilyich Nekrasov and his wife Daria Alexandrovna. From 1881 to 1888, he studied at the Perervinsky Theological School, which he completed "with good conduct." From 1888 to 1890, he attended the Moscow Theological Seminary and that same year was transferred to the Vifanskaya Theological Seminary, which he finished in 1897 "with excellent conduct, good and very good grades, and excellent marks in church reading and church singing." He was tonsured as a reader in May 1897.
From 1897 to 1903, he taught at the cathedral church-parish school in Volokolamsk, Moscow and Kolomna dioceses, Moscow province, at the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ. In 1903, he was awarded a Bible from the Holy Synod "for his service as a teacher." He served as a psalm-reader in the church dedicated to Metropolitan Alexy of Moscow. In 1903, he was a psalm-reader at the church of St. Alexy in Rogozhskaya Sloboda in Moscow. In 1904, he transferred to serve at the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos Church in Vladikino on Altufevskoe Highway. Records describe his appearance: he was of medium height, dark-haired, with a small beard.
He was married to Nekrasova Ekaterina Petrovna. He raised his adopted daughter Nina Petrovna Remizova (1911–1957), a niece who lost her parents early.
In November 1937, he was arrested along with the church rector Priest John Khrustalev and protodeacon Sergei Stanislavlev on the denunciation of Grigory Rumyantsev, the son-in-law of Father John. The investigator, confirming that Nicholas Nikolaevich knew the priest, deacon, and Rumyantsev, asked: "The investigation has data that you, together with Khrustalev, Stanislavlev, and Rumyantsev, conducted counter-revolutionary agitation against the party and Soviet power. Do you admit guilt?" "I have never engaged in counter-revolutionary agitation and do not consider myself guilty." Witnesses were interrogated, who signed protocols prepared by the investigators. On December 5, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced Priest John Khrustalev to execution, protodeacon Sergei Stanislavlev, psalm-reader Nicholas Nekrasov, and their accuser Grigory Rumyantsev to ten years in a corrective labor camp. Psalm-reader Nicholas Nekrasov was sent to the Suslovskoye section of Siblag. He died on March 7, 1938, en route without reaching the place of imprisonment.
On November 16, 1957, he was rehabilitated by the presidium of the Moscow City Court for the year of repression: 1937.
