Presbyter
Saint Peter (Peter Nikolaevich Bogorodsky) was destined to be born in 1878 in the village of Ilyinskoye-on-the-South in the family of a deacon. In 1926, he was ordained a priest at the Sokhotsky Women’s Monastery, and after its closure, he was transferred to the village of Fedorinskoye. Father Peter actively fought against the spread of the Renovationist heresy, for which he spent three years in northern exile, where he nearly died from hunger and typhus. Upon his return, he served as a priest in the village of Davydovskoye, and then in the Assumption Church in the city of Poshekhonye. For his active opposition to Renovationism, Father Peter was arrested in 1936, accused of “organizing a counter-revolutionary group, conducting illegal gatherings, opposing the removal of bells, and assisting exiled clergy.” He was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment, and in 1938, he accepted a martyr's death in the Sevvostlag in the Far East in the bay of Nogaevo.
