Presbyter
Saint Martyr Peter was born in 1876 in the village of Alexeyevskoye, Kolomensky district of the Moscow province, in the family of a clergyman, Vasily Uspensky. After graduating from the Theological Seminary, he was ordained as a deacon in 1901, and in 1905 he became a priest at the church in honor of John the Baptist in the village of Ivanovskoye. He served until 1929, when due to health deterioration, he retired.
In 1937, he returned to priestly service and was appointed to the Nikolayevskaya church in the village of Fedoskino. The church was closed, and Father Peter tried to gather parishioners to register a twenty, but was refused by the chairman of the village council. On November 26, 1937, he was arrested on charges of anti-Soviet agitation.
During the interrogation, the priest denied the accusations, asserting that his actions were aimed at fulfilling the requirements of the authorities. On December 2, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment in a labor camp. Father Peter Uspensky died on March 12, 1938, in the Susslovsky section of Siblag from heart muscle paralysis and senile debility. The burial place is unknown.
