Saint Tavrion was born on August 5, 1871, in the Nikolsky district of the Vologda province. In 1908, he entered the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery, and in 1920 he was tonsured as a monk and named Tavrion. After the closure of the podvorie in 1925, he served at the Church of the Rzhev Icon of the Mother of God, where he formed a monastic community with other monks.
On October 7, 1930, Monk Tavrion was arrested and imprisoned in Butyrka prison. In the OGPU, he stated that he would serve the Church as long as it existed. On November 23, 1930, he was sentenced to three years of exile in the Northern region. After completing his exile, he remained in the Vologda region and settled in Veliky Ustyug in 1937.
The situation with churches worsened, and on December 3, 1937, Monk Tavrion was arrested again. On December 10, a troika of the NKVD sentenced him to ten years of imprisonment in a labor camp. He passed away on June 7, 1939, in the Novoezerskaya correctional labor colony and was buried in an unmarked grave.
