St. Paraskeva was born on October 28, 1888, in the village of Peschanoe, Podolsk province. The family was religious and patriarchal. At the age of three, she understood the importance of fasting, making her first promise to God. When she was eight, her mother passed away, and she became the main worker in the household. From an early age, she expressed a desire to enter a monastery, which was eventually approved by her grandmother. In 1907, she entered the Theolin Spaso-Transfiguration Monastery, and in 1912, she joined the Turkovich Monastery, where she was accepted among the sisters.
In 1914, the monastery was evacuated to Moscow, and in 1918, it returned to Turkovichi. After the monastery was closed, she served in the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Dmitrov, where she taught children church singing. In 1921, Bishop Seraphim tonsured her into the rassaphore and assigned her to the Spaso-Vlahern Monastery.
On November 27, 1921, she was ordained as a deaconess. In 1924, she was summoned to the OGPU, where she was ordered to cease her activities. In 1928, after the monastery was closed, she continued to serve in the church. On May 27, 1931, she was arrested and sentenced to 5 years of exile in Kazakhstan.
In exile, she worked as a cook and cared for the workers. In 1935, after completing her exile, she settled in Astrakhan, and then in Kirsanov. The war found her in Dmitrov, where she suffered from illnesses. On December 4, 1953, she passed away and was buried in the cemetery of the city of Dmitrov.
On September 11, 2001, the holy relics of St. Paraskeva were found. On September 30, a solemn transfer took place to the Spaso-Vlahern Women's Monastery in the village of Dedenovo.
