She was born on September 17, 1871, in the village of Iznair, Serdobsky district, Saratov province, into a peasant family. In her childhood, she was left without a mother and was sent to an orphanage, where she lived until the age of twenty. Later, she moved to Saint Petersburg, where she entered service and studied drawing. In 1898, she met a nun, which led to her obedience in the Passion Monastery in Moscow, where she taught the nuns how to draw.
In 1921, she was deprived of her voting rights for living in the monastery. In 1926, the Passion Monastery was closed, and she, along with three nuns, repaired a basement room for living. In 1937, when the NKVD arrested the nuns, she managed to avoid arrest.
In February 1938, she was arrested based on the testimony of informers. During the interrogation, she denied all accusations of counter-revolutionary agitation. On February 25, the NKVD Troika sentenced her to execution for 'counter-revolutionary agitation.'
She was shot on February 28, 1938, and buried in an unmarked grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow. She was canonized among the ranks of the New Martyrs of Russia by the decision of the Holy Synod on February 22, 2001, for public veneration.
