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Also condemned in 1930 for being members of a “counter-revolutionary
organization” headed by Bishop Benjamin in “The Case of Bishop Benjamin
(Troitsky) and others, Ufa, 1930” were:
Priest Gregory Nazarovich Mikheev. He was born in 1887 in the village of
Saninskoye, Ufa uyezd, Ufa province into a peasant family. In 1927 Bishop
Benjamin ordained him to the priesthood, and he began to serve in his native
village. On June 20, 1930 he was arrested, and on December 3 was convicted
and sentenced to death in accordance with articles 58-10 part 2 and 58-13. The
sentence was carried out on the same day.
Priest Peter Vasilyevich Konfetkin. He was born in 1878 in the village of
Knyazevo, Ufa uyezd, into a peasant family. He is called an Old Ritualist, but
appears nevertheless to have been in Bishop Benjamin’s diocese. He was
ordained to the priesthood in 1917, and served in Ufa province. In 1925 he
was arrested for “anti-Soviet activity” and exiled for three years. In January,
1930, while serving as a priest in Bashkiria, he was arrested and sentenced to
six months’ forced labour for “late payment of taxes”. On July 23, 1930, while
living in Birsk, he was arrested and cast into the domzak in Birsk. When
Bishop Benjamin declared a hunger strike on November 26, he declared one
in support of him three days later. On December 3 he was convicted and
sentenced to ten years in the camps in accordance with articles 58-10 part 2
and 58-13. He was sent to a camp, where on October 28, 1937 he was arrested
again. On December 10 he was sentenced to death and shot.
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Priest Ivan Ignatyevich Kanafyev. He was born in 1888 in the village of
Turgeneyevo, Duvansky region, Ufa canton, Ufa province into a peasant
family. In 1928 he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Benjamin, and
was sent to serve in the village of Troshkino, Ufa canton. His family was
composed of four people. On June 17, 1930 he was arrested, and on December
3 convicted and sentenced to ten years in the camps, commuted to ten years’
exile in the north, in accordance with articles 58-10 part 2 and 58-13. Nothing
more is known about him.
Priest Andrew Stepanovich Baranov. He was born in 1892 in the village of
Dmitrievka, Ufa uyezd, Ufa province into a peasant family. During the First
World War he served in the tsarist army. On June 4, 1930 he was arrested and
cast into the isolator in Ufa. On November 29, 1930 he declared a hungerstrike
in protest against the sentence against Bishop Benjamin. On December
3, 1930 he was convicted and sentenced to ten years in the camps with
confiscation of property in accordance with articles 58-2 and 19. On February
7, 1946 he was arrested again in Ufa, and on May 17 was sentenced again to
ten years in the camps with confiscation of property in accordance with
articles 58-10 and 58-11. He served this second sentence in a camp in Komi,
and then, from January 25, 1949 in special camp no. 1 at Inta station on the
Pechersk railway station in Komi. On March 10, 1955 he was released under
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