Presbyter
Saint Nicholas (Nikolai Dmitrievich Nikolsky) was born in 1882 in the village of Deremenino, Poshekhonsky district, into a priest's family. He graduated from the Yaroslavl Theological Seminary, was ordained as a priest, and served in the churches of the Poshekhonsky and Permomaysky districts. In 1919, in the village of Nikolsk, where Father Nicholas served, a peasant uprising occurred against the mobilization into the Red Army. Later, he was repeatedly accused of participating in this uprising. He was arrested in 1930 and 1931 but was released due to lack of evidence. For the third time, Father Nicholas was arrested in 1937. The accusations were the same as before — 'participation in the white-green uprising, anti-Soviet propaganda, active Socialist Revolutionary activity.' The priest preferred martyrdom to the slander directed against him and was shot on November 6, 1937.
