Presbyter
Priest Victorin Dobronravov was born in 1889 in Chișinău into a priest's family. In 1914, he graduated from the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute and secretly went to Moscow to become a monk, but received a blessing for priesthood. In 1914, he was ordained as a deacon, and in 1915 — as a priest at the Spaso-Koltovskaya Church in Petrograd. Since 1919, he became the rector of the home church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Father Victorin was a well-known spiritual figure, his words attracted Orthodox Christians during persecutions. Every Friday, he served an akathist before the icon of the Mother of God — the Sovereign.
In 1930, he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp. He spent one and a half years in solitary confinement, then 6 years in Belbaltlag and was transferred to Siblag. After his early release, he went to the Novgorod region, where he worked in a children's home and served secretly. In 1937, he was arrested again; during a search, the Gospel was found with him. The troika of the NKVD issued a sentence of execution. The holy martyr Victorin was shot on December 28, 1937, in the prison of the city of Borovichi.
