Presbyter
He was born on June 6, 1882, in the Moscow province in the village of Banyki. There were five children in the family, and the father was often ill, which limited their means. Soon after the birth of the youngest son, the family moved to the village of Alexeyevskoye, where he spent his childhood and youth. From an early age, he was distinguished by great piety, sang in the church choir, and served in the altar. He graduated from the Zaikonospasskoye Spiritual School and then from the Moscow Spiritual Seminary, where he met Father John of Kronstadt. In 1908, he married Olga Borisovna Kormer and became a teacher at the seminary.
In 1913, he went to Bashkiria for treatment for tuberculosis. With the onset of World War I, he was exempted from military service due to health reasons and taught at courses for the Pokrov Community of Sisters of Mercy. In 1920, he was ordained as a deacon, and in 1920 – as a priest, and was appointed rector of the Church of St. Nicholas in Pokrovskoye. He organized a school for parishioners and continued to teach.
In 1922, the authorities began to create obstacles for clergymen, and he left his ministry in the church. In 1926, he applied for a disability pension and was appointed rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Nikitniki. In 1929, the church was closed, and he was arrested and imprisoned in Butyrka prison. On November 20, 1929, he was sentenced to three years in the Solovetsky camp.
In the camp, he worked in forestry, then became an assistant to the doctor. In the conditions of the camp, he continued to perform services with the believers. On December 7, 1937, he was arrested in his apartment during the evening service. On December 16, the NKVD troika sentenced him to death by shooting. He was shot on December 19, 1937, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
