Presbyter
Saint Nicholas Pomerantsev was born on November 11, 1881, in the village of Spasskoye in the Setun district of Moscow. In 1897, he graduated from the Zaiikonospasskoye Spiritual School, and in 1904, he graduated from the Moscow Spiritual Seminary. He served as a psalmist in a Moscow church, and in 1917, he was ordained as a priest at the Vladimir Church in the village of Ostashevo, where he served until 1929. In 1931, he hid part of the church utensils, for which he was sentenced to three months of corrective labor.
On November 3, 1937, he was arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary activity. During the interrogations, he denied all accusations but was transferred to Taganka prison in Moscow. On November 23, the NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment in a corrective labor camp.
Priest Nicholas Pomerantsev passed away in custody on August 16, 1938, and was buried in an unmarked grave.
