Presbyter
Priest, court counselor Pyotr Ivanovich Palushkov was born in 1865 in the city of Vladimir in a priest's family. In 1892, he graduated from the Kiev Theological Academy and was appointed to the Tula Theological Seminary, where he taught Sacred Scripture and psychology. From 1907, he was the inspector of the seminary. Court counselor Pyotr Ivanovich was a knight of the orders of Saint Anna and Saint Stanislaus. On September 30, 1917, he became the rector of the Tula Theological Seminary. After the revolution, the premises of the theological educational institutions were confiscated, and the seminary closed in early 1918. For two years, he taught in one of the schools in Tula.
On February 2, 1921, he was ordained to the rank of priest and appointed the rector of the Church of the Twelve Apostles. On March 26, 1926, Priest Pyotr Palushkov was arrested on charges of anti-Soviet agitation. In the sentence of April 10, 1922, he was sentenced to a corrective labor camp for 3 years. Due to amnesty, the term was reduced, and he was released. The parishioners expelled the new priest, and the church returned to the fold of the Orthodox Church.
On September 9, 1937, Priest Pyotr Ivanovich Palushkov was arrested again. He was charged with leading a counter-revolutionary church group. On November 19, 1937, a death sentence was handed down, and he was executed on November 23, 1937.
