Presbyter
He was born in 1891 in Ostashkov, Tver Province, into the family of priest Fyodor Ryasensky. After graduating from the Tver Theological Seminary, he was ordained as a priest to the church in the village of Spas-Esenovichi. He served in the Znamensky Church in Ostashkov, where he was repeatedly threatened by the Cheka, but he continued to preach. In 1929, after the death of protodeacon Ioann Bobrov, Priest Vladimir delivered a sermon on the persecution of the Church. Soon after, he himself was arrested on false charges of counter-revolutionary activity. During his imprisonment, he was brutally tortured, but he remained faithful to his faith and did not confess to any wrongdoing. On December 23, 1930, he was sentenced to five years in a concentration camp. The conditions of life in prison and the concentration camp led to his death on December 4, 1932, on the feast of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos.
