Presbyter
Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanovsky was born in 1869 in the city of Nikolaev, Kherson province, coming from a priestly family. He received his education at the Odessa Theological Seminary, which he graduated from in 1890. In the same year, he was ordained as a priest to the church of the village of Kaspiro-Nikolaevka, where he founded a parish school. In 1895, he was transferred to Nikolaev, assigned to the Novokupetskaya church, where he served as the third priest. Since 1907, he became a cleric of the Holy Nikolaev Greek church and taught the Law of God at the 1st Mariinsky Women's Gymnasium until its closure in 1918. During World War I, he organized a hospital for the wounded.
In 1931, he was arrested and sentenced to 8 years in a corrective labor camp, being sent to the Karaganda region. After 6 years of imprisonment, he was arrested again for participating in the 'True Orthodox Church.' During the interrogations, he did not admit guilt, although he did not deny the facts of his participation.
On November 20, 1937, Archpriest Nikolai Romanovsky was sentenced to execution, and the sentence was carried out.
