Presbyter
Saint Paul was born on September 8, 1896, in the city of Zaraysk, Ryazan Province. He graduated from the Ryazan Theological Seminary and in 1916 was drafted to the front, where he served as a warrant officer. Returning from the army in 1918, he was arrested and spent a month and a half in prison, but was found innocent. In 1922, he was ordained as a priest and served in various churches, including the church in honor of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Solun.
In 1930, he was arrested for “anti-Soviet activities” and sentenced to three years in a concentration camp. After returning in 1932, he settled in Serebryanye Prudy, and then in Zaraysk. In 1940, he was offered to leave the city, and he moved to Ryazan, where he did not serve but prayed in the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God of Sorrows.
On June 30, 1941, a week after the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was arrested and imprisoned in the Ryazan prison. During interrogations, he denied all charges. On September 22, 1941, he was sentenced to five years of imprisonment in a labor camp. On October 17, 1941, he was sent to Vytlag, where he died on January 22, 1943, from starvation and was buried in the cemetery of the 4th camp point of Vytlag.
