Presbyter
Saint Nicholas was born on March 3, 1884, in the city of Lodeynoye Pole, Saint Petersburg province, in the family of a psalmist, Alexey Pyatnitsky. After graduating from the theological school, he began serving as a psalmist in the church of the village of Krivoy Poyas, and then was transferred to the church of the village of Krivandino in the Ryazan province. In 1913, Nicholas Alexeyevich was ordained a priest in Tyumen. In 1919, during the occupation of Tyumen by the troops of Kolchak, he retreated with the White Army to Tomsk, but realizing that the White movement would be defeated, he returned to Tyumen. In 1921, the priest was transferred to one of the churches in the city of Yalutorovsk, where he served until 1931. In 1931, the Tyumen OGPU arrested the priest, and he spent about six months in prison. After his release, he moved to the Moscow region and served in the church of the village of Nikolsky Pogost. On October 29, 1937, Father Nicholas was arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary activities and imprisoned in Taganka prison in Moscow. He rejected all accusations. On November 14, the NKVD troika sentenced him to death by shooting. Priest Nicholas Pyatnitsky was shot on November 16, 1937, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
