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On August 10, 1931 Bishop Habbakuk was arrested and cast into Samara
Domzak. On September 8 the OGPU convicted him of “leading a churchsectarian
organization on whose orders he conducted anti-Soviet agitation
and recruitment, created counter-revolutionary religious cells among the
national minorities and undermined the undertakings of Soviet power in the
village”. In accordance with articles 58-10, 58-11 and 59-2, he was sentenced to
ten years in the camps. This was “The Case of the Church-sectarian
organization under the leadership of Bishop Habbakuk (Borovkov), Orenburg
province, 1931”. He refused to admit that he was guilty.
The following were convicted in the same trial and on the same charges as
Bishop Habbakuk:
Hieromonk Raphael (Alexandrovich Vechkilev). He was born in 1884 in
the village of Naumovka, Buguruslansky uyezd, Samara province (Boklinsky
region, Orenburg province) into a Mordvinian peasant family. He entered a
men’s monastery as a novice, and was tonsured into monasticism in 1918. In
1919 he was ordained to the diaconate, and in 1921 – to the priesthood,
serving in the Mironositskaya Tsarevokokshaiskaya desert, Kazan province as
treasurer. In 1923 he was arrested for resisting the requisitioning of church
valuables (the indictment was for “stealing church valuables), and was
sentenced to four years’ imprisonment. After one year he was released, and
went to serve in the village of Kivatskoye, Mordovo-Boklinsky region,
Orenburg province. On May 1, 1931 he was arrested. In accordance with
articles 58-10, 58-11 and 59-2, he was sentenced to eight years in the camps.
He refused to recognize his guilt. Nothing more is known about him.
Priest Basil Grigoryevich Anisimov. He was born on August 2, 1901 in the
village of Sololeika, Buguruslan uyezd, Samara province (Mordovo-Boklinsky
region, Orenburg province) into a Mordovian family. Until 1927 he worked in
the fields. In 1927 he was ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Herman
(Kokel) of Bugulmin and sent to serve in the village of Naumovka, Mordovo-
Boklinsky region. Later he served in his native village of Sololeika, and then
in Kamyshinka. In April, 1930 he was ordained to the priesthood in Kazan by
Bishop Herman and sent to his native village. On December 8, 1930 he was
appointed dean by Bishop Habbakuk, whose party he joined. He had a wife, a
son and three daughters. On May 1, 1931 he was arrested and cast into
Samara Domzak. On September 8 he was convicted of “participation in a
counter-revolutionary religious cell of a church-sectarian organization among
the national minorities” and of “undermining Soviet power in the village”. In
accordance with articles 58-10, 58-11 and 59-2, he was sentenced to ten years
in the camps. He refused to recognize his guilt. Nothing more is known about
him.
Priest Peter Lavrentyevich Yeremeyev. He was born in April, 1889 in the
village of Naumovka, Boklinsky region, Orenburg province. He was a
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