Presbyter
He was born on June 17, 1877, in the village of Polyany, Ryazan district, Ryazan province, in the family of a priest, Nikolai Grigorievich Dobromyslov. He graduated from the Ryazan Spiritual School and entered the Ryazan Theological Seminary, then the Moscow Theological Academy, which he completed in 1901. He married Klavdiya Alexeyevna Shuvalova, and they had six children.
On October 1, 1901, Bishop Polyevkt of Ryazan and Zaraysk ordained him as a priest at the Staro-Yamskaya Nikolayevskaya Church in the city of Ryazan. From 1902 to 1906, he was a teacher at the Ryazan Eparchial Women's School, from 1906 to 1910, a member of the Ryazan Eparchial Missionary Committee, from 1910 to 1912, he served as a legal advisor at the Ryazan Men's Private Gymnasium, and from 1911 to 1914, he was the head and legal advisor of the Ryazan Maria Women's Gymnasium. In 1912, he became a member of the Ryazan branch of the Eparchial School Council, and in 1913, he was awarded a pectoral cross.
In 1914, he was appointed priest of the Sorrowful Church in the Murovtseva Home for the Elderly in Ryazan. In 1918, during the persecutions of the godless authorities, he was arrested and held for some time in one of the Moscow prisons. In 1923, he was appointed to the Annunciation Church in Ryazan and was elevated to the rank of protodeacon.
In March 1924, Archbishop Boris of Ryazan appointed him as the Ryazan district dean. Being an opponent of the Renovationists, he wrote a history of the Renovationist movement in the Ryazan diocese at the request of the bishop. In his letters to the archbishop, he described the actions of the Renovationists and their attempts to create church governance.
On October 27, 1925, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Ryazan prison. During interrogations, he asserted that the activities of the diocesan office were legal and did not have a counter-revolutionary character. On March 26, 1926, he was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a concentration camp and sent to Solovki.
After returning from imprisonment, he served in the churches of the Ryazan diocese. In 1930, he was arrested again, accused of possessing small change, and sentenced to three years of exile in Semipalatinsk. In 1933, he returned to the Ryazan diocese and began serving in the Annunciation Church.
On March 16, 1938, he was arrested again and accused of anti-Soviet activities. On May 29, 1938, the Special Meeting of the NKVD of the USSR sentenced him to eight years of imprisonment in a corrective labor camp. He died on February 2, 1940, in the 8th Chur-Nurin section of the Karaganda camp and was buried in an unmarked grave.
