Presbyter
Saint Paul was born on January 13, 1890, in the village of Sysoy, Ryazan Province. He received his education at a teacher's seminary and was ordained a priest in 1918.
Since 1934, he served in the church in the village of Panskoye, Voronezh Region. On September 14, 1935, he was arrested on charges of anti-Soviet agitation. False witnesses, who did not know the priest, provided testimonies that he categorically denied. One of the pieces of evidence against him was that he performed the Sacrament of Anointing, which, according to the NKVD, could be interpreted as slander against the Soviet government.
On December 18, 1935, a closed session of the special collegium of the Voronezh regional court took place in Michurinsk, where the priest was sentenced to five years of imprisonment and sent to the Khabarovsk Territory.
