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He was sentenced to a term in a labour army. Nothing more is known about
him.
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Priest Michael Alexeyevich Kritsky was born in 1879, and in 1900 finished
his studies at the Nizhegorod theological seminary. In September, 1900 he
was ordained to the diaconate, and in October – to the priesthood. He taught
the Law of God in schools in the villages of Avtodeyeva and Teryaeva, and
served in the Trinity church in Avtodeyeva, Ardatov uyezd, Nizhni
Novgorod province. In October, 1914 he was appointed assistant to the dean
of the second Ardatov district.
Fr. Michael was a priest of lofty spiritual life. After the revolution he took
upon himself the exploit of being a fool-for-Christ, collected money for the
Diveyevo sisters, and by his unusual words and actions prophesied the
future. He tore up anti-religious placards and portraits of revolutionary
leaders.
In 1919 he was arrested and cast into prison. On December 19, 1920 he was
arrested in church immediately after a service and cast into prison in Ardatov.
On March 30, 1921, as he was being transferred to a village in the town of
Kulibaki, he was shot in a wood without trial or investigation. On April 7 he
was buried next to the church of the Life-Giving Trinity to the right of the
altar. Many people came to his funeral, and his memory is preserved in his
local church.
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In 1922, in connection with the confiscation of church valuables, 68 clergy
of all ranks in Nizhni-Novgorod province were killed by the Bolsheviks.
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Priest Vladimir Karpinsky began to serve in the church of the Holy Trinity
in the village of Deyanovo, Nizhegorod province after the murder of the local
priest, Fr. Stefan Nemkov. He was killed in 1923 by local communists during
the Paschal liturgy.
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Seraphima Alexandrovna Aloyeva, the daughter of the repressed Reader
Alexander Ivanovich Aloyev, was born in 1909 and arrested in 1927. Nothing
more is known about her.
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