Presbyter
Saint Sergey was born on September 26, 1883, in the village of Shubino, in the Bronnitsky district of Moscow province, to the family of priest Mikhail and Ekaterina Solovyov. His father was ordained to the Uspensky Church in 1876 and served there all his life. In 1894, Sergey entered the Don Spiritual School, which he graduated from in 1899, and in 1906 he graduated from the Moscow Spiritual Seminary. On August 26, 1910, Metropolitan Vladimir appointed him as a priest to the Uspensky Church, where he served all his life. In 1923, he was appointed as the dean of the 4th district of the Bronnitsky district. In the late 1920s, the authorities attempted to close the Uspensky Church, but Father Sergey and the parishioners managed to defend the church. On January 21, 1938, he was arrested, and on February 11, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Priest Sergey Solovyov was shot on February 17, 1938, and buried in an unknown common grave at the Butovo shooting range near Moscow.
