Vasily Emelyanovich Kondratiev was born on March 1, 1887, in the village of Ginutyevo, Alexandrovsky district, Vladimir province. In the 1920s and early 1930s, he lived in Zagorsk and engaged in trade. From 1926 to 1935, he served as a parish warden in a church where Archimandrite Mavrikiy served. On October 21, 1935, he was arrested on charges of expressing 'counter-revolutionary views' and 'anti-Soviet agitation,' but he did not admit his guilt. On January 8, 1936, a special meeting of the NKVD sentenced him to three years of corrective labor, which he served in the Karaganda ITL, working as a loader. In 1937, a new case was initiated against him, accusing him of providing a 'place' for divine services. He was executed on October 4, 1937, by the decree of the troika of the U.N.K.V.D. and was buried in a common unmarked grave. He was glorified by the Archierarchical Jubilee Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in the year 2000.
