Hieromonk
To the venerable monk Nil, born on May 4, 1871, in the village of Olyavido, was given the name Nikolai at baptism. After finishing rural school, he worked in textile factories, and in 1901 moved to Moscow, where he began to serve in the church.
In 1904, he entered the Joseph-Volokolamsk Monastery, where in 1907 he was tonsured into the mantle with the name Nil. From 1909, he served in various positions, including that of an economist and a dean. In 1920, the monastery was closed, and Father Nil served in the churches of the Volokolamsk district, and later in the Bogoroditse-Rozhdestvensky church.
In 1931, he was transferred to the Church of the Indescribable Savior. In 1938, he was arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary activity. Father Nil did not admit his guilt, but on March 11, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. He was shot on March 20, 1938, and buried in an anonymous mass grave at the Butovo shooting range near Moscow.
