Presbyter
He was born on September 6, 1874, into the family of priest Konstantin Georgievich Makhaev in the village of Usovo, Moscow district. He received his spiritual education at the Vifanskaya Theological Seminary, graduating in 1895. He served as a psalmist in the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Koshely, demonstrating himself as a teacher and zealous preacher. In 1900, he was appointed priest at the Church of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, where he served for nineteen years. He engaged in pedagogical activities, teaching children the Law of God and preparing sisters of mercy for service. In 1915, he was awarded a kamilavka for his labors for the benefit of the Orthodox Palestinian Society, and in 1917, he received a gold pectoral cross.
After the October Revolution, he continued to serve in the Iveron Church, then worked in the Legal Department of the Zamoskvoretsky Soviet. In 1919, he became the rector of the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul on Bolshaya Yakimanka. In 1920, he was elevated to the rank of protodeacon. In 1922, he was arrested on suspicion of teaching the Law of God to children but was released. In 1937, he was appointed rector of the Epiphany Cathedral in the city of Noginsk. In November 1937, he was arrested and accused of counter-revolutionary agitation. On November 25, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. He was shot on December 2, 1937, and buried in an unmarked grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
