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58-10, 58-11 and 59-2 of being “a member of a counter-revolutionary cell
among the national minorities” and of “undermining soviet power in the
village”. He was cast into Samara Domzak. He pleaded not guilty and was
released. Nothing more is known about him.
Matthew Yemelyanovich Ichin. A Mordvinian, he was born on August 1,
1900 in the village of Sololeika, Buguruslan uyezd, Samara province into a
peasant family. He was married, with three sons and a daughter, and was
warden of the local church. On May 13, 1931 he was arrested, cast into Samara
Domzak, and sentenced in accordance with articles 58-10, 58-11 and 59-2 to
five years in the camps. He was arrested again on July 23, 1937, and on
September 4 was sentenced to death for being “a participant in an armed
bandit group”. He was shot on the same day in Zauralskaya Rosha,
Orenburg.
Melania Konstantinovna Inchina. A Mordvinian, she was born in January,
1896 in the village of Kamyshlinka, Buguruslan uyezd, Samara province into
the family of a trader. For several months she worked in the church as a
prosphora-baker. She was not married, and worked in the fields. In 1929-1930
she worked as a nanny in Boriskin hospital. On May 1, 1931 she was arrested
and cast into Samara Domzak. On September 8 she 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, she was sentenced
to three years in the camps. Nothing more is known about her.
Eudocia Yefimovna Sevastyanova was born in August, 1866 in the village
of Staroye Boriskino, Buguruslan uyezd, Samara province. She was the wife
of a trader in wheat and cattle, and had two sons and a daughter. On May 2,
1931 she was arrested in her native village and cast into the Domzak in
Samara. In accordance with articles 58-10, 58-11 and 59-2, she was sentenced
to three years’ exile in the north. Nothing more is known about her.
It is known that on November 20, 1935 Bishop Habbakuk was in the camps
on the White Sea-Baltic canal, Karelia.
On September 20, 1937 he was condemned by the UNKVD, and in
accordance with articles 58-10, 58-11 and 59-2 was sentenced to death. On
October 15, 1937 at 12.30 a.m. he was shot in Karelia.
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Another priest of Bishop Habbakuk was Hieromonk Metrophanes, in the
world Michael Vasilyevich Vasilyev. He was born in 1876 in the village of
Tipnery, Cheboksari uyezd. He finished four classes of the village school,
worked on the land, and in 1904 entered as a novice the Hodigitria monastery
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