Presbyter
Saint Pavel was born in 1875 in the village of Tsurikovo, Smolensk district of Smolensk province, in the family of priest Ioann Ivanov. He graduated from the Theological Seminary in 1898 and worked as a teacher until 1901, when he was ordained to take his father's place in the Assumption Church. From 1910, he served as a regimental priest in the 7th Turkestan Rifle Regiment. The revolution and civil war found him serving in the regiment at the 108th military hospital.
From 1919 to 1926, he served in the Pokrov Church in the village of Tupichevo. In 1926, he moved to Moscow and was appointed to the Assumption Church in the village of Obukhovo.
On March 23, 1938, he was arrested by NKVD officers and imprisoned. During the interrogation, he denied the accusations of counter-revolutionary activity. On June 2, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Priest Pavel Ivanov was shot on June 27, 1938, and buried in an unmarked grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
