Archbishop
Saint Tikhon was born on September 16, 1873, in the village of Shonguty, Tetyushsky district of Kazan province, in the family of a peasant, Peter Buzov. At baptism, he was named Joseph. At the age of 18, he left for the Sedmozerskaya Bogoroditskaya Voznesenskaya men's hermitage, where he was accepted as a novice. In 1901, he took monastic vows with the name Tikhon and soon was ordained as a hieromonk. In 1905, during the revolutionary upheavals, he was exiled to the Trinity Cheboksary Monastery, where he served as a chanter. From 1910 to 1914, he served at the archbishop's house in Arkhangelsk and attended missionary courses in Ufa. In 1914, he was transferred to the Don Monastery in Moscow, and in 1924 he was elevated to igumen, and in 1926 to archimandrite.
On November 15, 1927, he was arrested by the OGPU and imprisoned in Butyrka prison. On January 9, 1928, the investigation was completed, and on January 27, 1928, Archimandrite Tikhon was sentenced to exile for three years. He chose Kazan as his place of exile, where he served as a non-staff priest and worked for hire. On May 23, 1933, he was appointed by Metropolitan Sergius to the Protection Church in the village of Ilmyany, Moscow region. On November 27, 1937, he was arrested and imprisoned in Taganka prison in Moscow.
On December 5, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced Father Tikhon to execution. He was shot on December 9, 1937, and buried in an unmarked common grave at the Butovo firing range near Moscow.
