Presbyter
Saint Stephen was born on March 23, 1860, in the Yurevets district of the Kostroma province, in the family of deacon Mikhail Preobrazhensky. After graduating from the Theological Seminary, he was ordained a priest and continued to serve in the church in the village of Shustovo in the Ivanovo region, despite the persecution of the clergy.
On October 9, 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned in a prison in the city of Vyazniki. During the interrogation, the priest replied that he did not conduct anti-Soviet agitation and did not gather children for the showing of the picture of the Last Judgment. The accusations against him were based on the testimonies of witnesses who claimed that he spoke about the persecutions of religion and the sufferings of collective farmers.
On November 15, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment in a concentration camp. At that time, he was seventy-seven years old. Priest Stephen Preobrazhensky passed away in custody and was buried in an unmarked grave.
