Hieromonk
Saint martyr Peter (in the world Pavel Ivanovich Mamontov) was born on June 7, 1880, in the village of Dedino, Zaraysk district of Ryazan province, into a peasant family. After finishing the church-parish school, he moved to Moscow in 1893, but soon went to the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Guslitsky Monastery, where he spent a year. In 1901, he was drafted into military service, but after serving for a month, he returned to the factory, and in 1902, he finally went to the monastery.
In 1908, he was accepted into the brotherhood of the monastery, in 1912 he was tonsured into the mantle with the name Peter, and in 1914 he was ordained as hierodeacon. He remained in the Guslitsky Monastery until its closure in 1929. In 1930, he was sent to serve in the Nikitskaya Church in the village of Byvalino. In 1933, he was ordained as hieromonk.
On September 27, 1937, on the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, he addressed the parishioners with a request for help in supporting the episcopate. In early November 1937, he was arrested on false charges of anti-Soviet agitation.
On November 18, 1937, he was imprisoned in the city of Noginsk. On November 25, the NKVD troika sentenced him to death by shooting. Hieromonk Peter was shot on December 2, 1937, and buried in an anonymous mass grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
