Presbyter
Saint Vladimir was born on June 6, 1889, in the city of Kostroma. After finishing gymnasium, he enrolled in the law faculty but transferred to the historical and philological faculty of Saint Petersburg University. After the February Revolution of 1917, he became the secretary of the Vitebsk branch of the Cadet Party. On December 24, 1919, he was ordained as a deacon, and on January 1, 1920, as a priest. He served in the Nikolaev Church, then in the Kazan Cathedral, and in the Church of the Righteous Zacharias and Elizabeth. In 1921, he became a member of the philosophical society and an assistant at the department of Christian pedagogy.
In 1922, he was arrested in connection with the case of resisting the confiscation of church valuables, but was soon released. On September 5, 1922, he was arrested again and sentenced to three years of exile in Orenburg. After returning to Petrograd, on December 9, 1924, he was tonsured into monasticism and elevated to the rank of archimandrite. On March 8, 1925, he was consecrated as Bishop of Okhtensky, but he refused the appointment as Bishop of Pskov.
On August 14, 1926, he repented and was accepted into communion with the Orthodox Church. On April 6, 1928, he was arrested on charges of being in an illegal religious group. On December 10, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced him to execution. Priest Vladimir Pishchulin was shot on February 10, 1938, and buried in an unknown common grave near Simferopol.
