Brothers Simeon and Dmitry were born in the village of Klyuchevo in the Tver province to a pious family of peasant Mikhail Vorobyov. Simeon was born in 1871, and Dmitry in 1873. Both brothers were literate and well-read in church literature, raised from childhood to prayer and church service. They served in the army as privates and had small peasant farms, which were not confiscated during the revolution. In the early 1930s, the brothers were arrested and exiled to the Urals along with their families.
A year later, they were allowed to return, but their property was not returned. Simeon became a church starosta, and his son Nikolai served as a psalmist. In 1937, the brothers were arrested and imprisoned in the Bezhetskaya prison. During interrogations, they denied any counter-revolutionary activities, asserting that their connection with the priest Dievsky was solely due to their joint service in the church.
On August 13, the NKVD Troika sentenced Simeon and Dmitry to execution, while Nikolai was sentenced to eight years in a correctional labor camp. The brothers were executed on August 17, 1937. They were canonized among the ranks of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia in August 2000 for public veneration.
