Deacon
Peter Andreyevich Kravets was born in 1885 in the city of Nikolaevsk, Samara province. In 1907, he graduated from the feldsher school and served as a feldsher on the German front from 1914 to 1918. Since 1918, he served in the Red Army. In 1921, he was ordained as a deacon and sent to serve in his native city of Nikolaevsk. He was first arrested in 1923 for belonging to the church community of the Tikhon orientation, but the real reason for his arrest was the struggle against Renovationism. In 1930, he was appointed psalmist in a church in Saratov. In 1935, he was arrested in Kazan and convicted under Article 58 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR, accused of anti-Soviet agitation. He was sentenced to three years in a correctional labor camp. On September 19, 1937, he was arrested again and sentenced for participating in a group of former priests. On November 2, 1937, he was shot. He was rehabilitated on April 28, 1989, and on March 23, 1990. On August 20, 2000, he was canonized among the saints for public veneration in the Sobor of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
