Martyr Peter was born on January 29, 1889, in the village of Makshaevo, Kolomensky district of Moscow province. After finishing the theological school, he entered the Theological Seminary, but due to his father's death in 1903, he returned to the village to help his mother. Since 1915, he served as a psalmist in the church.
On November 3, 1937, he was arrested on charges of anti-Soviet agitation. He rejected all accusations, but the investigator insisted on their confirmation. On November 17, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to eight years of imprisonment in a corrective labor camp. The conditions of confinement and work became a death sentence for him. Peter Troitsky died on January 13, 1938, and was buried in an unmarked grave in Karelia.
