Presbyter
Saint Vladimir was born on October 12, 1883, in the village of Alexandrov, Moscow province. In 1898, he graduated from the Zaiikonospasskoye Spiritual School, and in 1904 – from the Moscow Spiritual Seminary. He served as a psalmist in the Pimenov Church in Sushchevo, where he was ordained a priest in 1924. After the church was seized by Renovationists, he was appointed priest at the Church of Peter and Paul, and later transferred to the Church of the Protection of the Mother of God on Lyshchikova Hill.
The parishioners of the Pimenov Church did not reconcile with the seizure and gathered at the church on March 11, 1937, demanding its return. On April 20, 1937, Father Vladimir was arrested and imprisoned in Butyrka prison.
During interrogations, he denied his guilt in anti-Soviet activities, confirming only that his parishioners spread provocative rumors. On June 2, 1937, he was sentenced to five years of imprisonment in a corrective labor camp and sent to Ukhtpechlag, and then to the Vorkuta camp, where he passed away on September 9, 1940, on the day of the commemoration of Saint Pimen the Great.
