Semion Ilarionovich Krivosheev was born in 1878 in Poltava. He graduated from the Poltava Theological Seminary, and in 1903 he was ordained as a priest and began to pastorally care for the village of Kharkovtsy in the Kharkiv region, where he served until 1937. On March 27, 1937, he was arrested on charges of 'counter-revolutionary agitation' and sentenced to 5 years of exile in Kazakhstan. He served his exile in the village of Maiskoye in the Pavlodar region. In 1937, during the arrests related to the 'Case of Archimandrite Grigory', he was arrested again. During the interrogation, he denied his guilt. On December 1, 1937, a troika of the NKVD sentenced Archpriest Simeon Krivosheev to execution, which was carried out on December 2 at 2 o'clock in the morning.
