Presbyter
Saint Nicholas was born in 1867 in the village of Muromtsevo, Dmitrov district, Moscow province, in the family of priest Peter Alexeyevich Rozanov. He entered the Vifanskaya Theological Seminary but completed only two classes. In 1890, he was ordained as a deacon, and in 1905 – as a priest. He served in various churches, including the Church of Archangel Michael in Moscow and the Ascension Church in Zvenigorod. Since 1901, he taught Church Slavonic and the Law of God in church-parish and zemstvo schools. In 1928, he was elevated to the rank of protodeacon and awarded a mitre.
On March 18, 1938, he was arrested based on a denunciation claiming that he was spreading counter-revolutionary ideas. On March 21, 1938, he was arrested and placed in Zvenigorod prison. During the interrogation, he stated that he had served as a priest until the moment of his arrest. On June 7, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced him to death by shooting. On July 4, 1938, he was shot and buried in an anonymous mass grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
