Presbyter
Saint Nicholas was born in 1895 in the village of Vypolzovo, Simbirsk Province, in the family of deacon Dmitry Troitsky. After graduating from the Simbirsk Theological Seminary in 1918, he served for some time as a teacher in a rural school. In 1920, he was ordained as a priest in the village of Sabava. For his impeccable service, he was awarded a pectoral cross, a skufia, a kamilavka, and a nabedrennik.
In 1929, he was sentenced for tax evasion and served his term. After his release, from 1930 he served in the village of Semyonovskoye, and then in the village of Maloye Churashyevo. In 1935, he was elevated to the rank of protodeacon. The authorities tried to involve him in public works, but he refused, citing the directive of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
On November 29, 1937, he was arrested and held in the prison of the city of Yadrin. During interrogations, the priest did not confess to any wrongdoing, asserting that he had never engaged in counter-revolutionary agitation. Despite this, on February 1, 1938, an indictment was presented, and on May 6, a court session took place, during which he was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment.
Protodeacon Nicholas was sent to the Alatyr corrective labor colony, where more than 4,000 prisoners were held. In the colony, priests died from starvation and diseases. In March 1941, he was transferred to the Baikal-Amur camp. He passed away on March 10, 1945, and was buried in an unmarked grave.
