Hieromonk
Venerable martyr hieromonk Platon, in the world Peter Tikhonovich Kolegov, was born on August 20, 1865, in a poor peasant family in the village of Gaini, Perm Province. He became a hieromonk of the Ulyanovsk Trinity-Stefanov Monastery in the village of Ulyanovo, Vologda Province. After the arrest of the monastery's abbot, Father Arseny, Father Platon performed his duties.
In November 1918, the village of Ulyanovo fell into the hands of the Reds, which led to the arrest of Father Platon in March 1919 and accusations of aiding the Whites. He was sentenced to 5 years in a corrective labor camp. In 1925, he was released and served in the Spasskaya Church of the village of Chasovo in the Ust-Sysolsk District.
On June 12, 1937, he was arrested again, with accusations of his active counter-revolutionary activities. On August 13, 1937, the troika of the NKVD of the Komi ASSR sentenced him to execution by shooting, which was carried out on August 15. Father Platon was shot and buried near the city of Syktyvkar. On October 6, 2001, he was canonized among the ranks of the new martyrs of Russia.
