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sent to serve in the village of Noikino, Mordovo-Boklinsky region, Orenburg
province. In 1930 he was arrested and cast into prison in Orenburg. Four
months later he was released. On April 29, 1931 he was arrested again, and on
September 8 was convicted of “participation in a counter-revolutionary
religious cell of a church-sectarian organization among the national
minorities” and of “undermining the undertakings of Soviet power in the
village”. In accordance with articles 58-10, 58-11 and 59-2, he was sentenced to
five years in the camps. Nothing more is known about him.
Hierodeacon Hermolaus, in the world Emelian Alexeyevich Reshetnikov,
was born in August, 1891 in the village of Staroye Boriskino, Buguruslan
uyezd, Samara province into a peasant family. He went to a village school.
From 1914 to 1916 he worked as a carpenter in Samara, and from 1916 to 1919
– in Perm. In 1921 he became a monk in the Belogorsk monastery in Perm
province, and in 1923 was ordained to the diaconate for his native village. On
May 1, 1931 he was arrested and cast into Samara Domzak. On September 8,
1931 he was convicted of being “a member of a counter-revolutionary
religious cell among the national minorities” and of “undermining the
enterprises of Soviet power in the village”. In accordance with articles 58-10,
58-11 and 59-2, he was sentenced to three years in the camps. Nothing more is
known about him.
Nun Agatha (Efimovna Bashitova). She was born in April, 1876 in the
village of Boriskino, Buguruslan uyezd, Samara province into a Mordovian
peasant family. She was a nun in the women’s monastery of the Kazan icon of
the Mother of God in Bugulma from 1901 until its closure in 1928, when she
went to live in the village of Saleleika, Boklinsky region, Buruguslan district.
On May 2, 1931 she was arrested there and cast into the Domzak in Samara.
On September 8 she was convicted of being “a member of a counterrevolutionary
cell in the national minorities” and of “undermining the
undertakings of Soviet power in the village”. In accordance with articles 58-
10, 58-11 and 59-2, she was sentenced to five years in the camps. She refused
to recognize her guilt. Nothing more is known about her.
Novice Eudocia (Fyodorovna Antonova). She was born in March, 1890 in
the village of Saloleika, Buguruslan uyezd, Samara province into a Mordovian
peasant family. She was a novice in the women’s monastery of the Kazan icon
of the Mother of God in Bugulma until its closure in 1928, when she returned
to her native village. On May 2, 1931 she was arrested there and cast into the
Domzak in Samara. On September 8 she was convicted of being “a member of
a counter-revolutionary cell in the national minorities” and of “undermining
the undertakings of Soviet power in the village”. In accordance with articles
58-10, 58-11 and 59-2, she was sentenced to five years in the camps. She
refused to recognize her guilt. Nothing more is known about her.
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