Presbyter
Saint Peter was born on January 19, 1903, in the city of Mozhaysk, Moscow Province. His father, Sergey Petrovich, was an orphan and worked on the railway. His mother, Tatyana Mikhailovna, came from a merchant family. At the age of eighteen, Peter approached the health commissioner with a request to enroll in the medical faculty, which he successfully graduated from in 1921. During this time, he met Elder Nectarios of Optina and became his spiritual son. In 1925, he was ordained as a deacon and later as a priest. He served in various churches until he was arrested and imprisoned in Butyrka prison in 1931. After his release, he lived in Murom, but was soon arrested again in 1932. In 1937, during the mass repressions, he was arrested again and accused of counter-revolutionary activities. On September 26, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to death by shooting. He was shot on September 27, 1937, and buried in an unmarked grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
