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Saint Seraphim (in the world, Antoniy Maximovich Tyevar) was born on July 30, 1899, in Moscow. In 1919, he enrolled in courses for extracurricular political education and was sent to the front of the Southern Army, but later remained in Moscow, working as a librarian. In 1924, by the order of Professor Ivan Vasilyevich Popov, he was engaged in compiling a list of bishops and gathering information about the name-bearers. On December 10, 1924, Antoniy was arrested and imprisoned in the OGPU prison. In 1925, he was found guilty of having connections with representatives of foreign states and sentenced to three years in the Solovetsky concentration camp. In Solovki, he lived with Ivan Vasilyevich and worked in the office. At the end of December 1927, Antoniy returned to Moscow, where he accepted monasticism under the name Seraphim and was ordained as a hieromonk. In 1931, due to the intensification of the persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church, he was arrested again and sentenced to three years in the Vyshergsky camps. Saint Seraphim passed away on December 6, 1931, in the Vyshergsky corrective labor camp. A cross was erected over his grave, which was long adorned by the faithful.
