Presbyter
Peter Fyodorovich Grigoryev was born in May 1895 in the city of Oboyan. In 1916, he graduated from the Kursk Theological Seminary. The February Revolution of 1917 forced him to return to Oboyan. In 1919, he began serving as a psalmist in the Smolensk Church, and in the same year, he was ordained as a priest. Father Peter was married and had a daughter, Olga.
In 1930, he was deprived of voting rights and arrested for anti-Soviet agitation. He was released in June 1930 due to insufficient evidence. In 1931, he was arrested again, during which 158 church books were confiscated. On April 16, 1932, he was sentenced to 10 years in concentration camps for leading a counter-revolutionary organization. In 1932, a new charge was brought against him in a group case. In May 1932, he arrived at the place of imprisonment - the White Sea-Baltic Canal.
He remained in BelBaltLag until January 1937. In January 1937, he was transferred to Volgolag, where he worked as a draftsman. In September 1937, he was sentenced to death by a troika of the NKVD for counter-revolutionary agitation. On September 23, 1937, he was executed in Volgolag.
On August 8, 1989, he was rehabilitated by the Prosecutor's Office of the Yaroslavl Region. From August 13 to 16, 2000, he was canonized as a holy martyr by the Russian Orthodox Church. Commemoration dates: The Assembly of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia - the first Sunday closest to February 7, and September 23 - the day of his martyrdom.
