Presbyter
Pavel Dmitrievich Uspensky was born on May 23, 1888, in the village of Chernyevo to a priest's family. In 1904, he graduated from the Perervinsky Theological School, and in 1911, from the Moscow Theological Seminary. He served as a teacher in a church parish school, and then was ordained as a deacon and priest at the Trinity Church in the village of Sapronovo.
In 1930, he was transferred to the Resurrection Church in the village of Vasilievskoe, and then served in churches in the villages of Chashnikovo, Bolshevo, and Tsaritsyno. In 1936, he was transferred to the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in the village of Rudnya-Nikitinskoye, where he was known by the peasants who invited him to perform services.
On March 19, 1938, he was arrested and imprisoned in a prison in the city of Kashira. During interrogations, he did not admit his guilt. On June 7, 1938, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. He was shot on July 4, 1938, and buried in a common unmarked grave at the Butovo firing range. He was rehabilitated on November 2, 1957.
