Presbyter
Saint Vladimir was born on July 11, 1881, in the village of Kostino, Moscow province, into the family of priest Alexander Pisarev. After the death of his father, his mother, Serafima Fedorovna, became a prosphora-baker in the church.
In 1911, Vladimir Alexandrovich married the daughter of priest Feodor Arkhangelsky, Olympiada. That same year, he was ordained as a deacon in the Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God.
Father Vladimir's father, as a priest, was deprived of civil rights, and his household was destroyed. He worked hard to feed the family. In 1930, he was ordained as a priest, and in 1937, he became a protodeacon. On October 27, 1937, Father Vladimir was arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary activity.
On November 15, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Protodeacon Vladimir Pisarev was shot on November 16, 1937, and buried in an unknown mass grave at the Butovo shooting range near Moscow. The church in the village of Kostino was closed, and the house was burned down, forcing the widow with children to seek refuge with relatives.
