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Ivan Yegorovich Kuritsyn was born in 1887, and suffered for the faith in
Tataria, being shot on March 5, 1930.
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Priest Basil Nikolayevich Muravtsev was born in the 1880s or 1890s. He
was educated at the Kazan Theological Academy, and became rector in the
city of Bugulma, Tataria. He was sent to Solovki and died at the end of the
1920s or beginning of the 1930s.
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Priest Constantine Vasilyevich Agrov was born in 1880 in Tataria. He was
arrested on February 3, 1930 and condemned on March 19, 1930.
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Priest Paul Sergeyevich Ilyin, a Kryashen, was born in 1889 in the village
of Yantsevary, Pestrechinsky region, Tataria, and lived in the village of Lyaki,
Sarmanovsky region. On March 8, 1930 he was arrested, and on May 16 was
convicted of “anti-collective farm religious agitation”. In accordance with
article 58-10, he was sentenced to five years in the camps. Nothing more is
known about him.
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Priest Basil Dmitrievich Dmitriev was born in 1871 in the village of
Mataki, Drozhzhanovsky region, Tataria. He was a Chuvash. On March 24,
1930 he was arrested in his native village, and on May 16 was sentenced in
accordance with article 58-10 to five years’ exile in the north for “anticollective
farm agitation”. Nothing more is known about her.
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Alexandra Yefimovna Zaitseva (Tokareva) was born in 1861 in the village
of Russkij Shugan, Muslyumovsky region, Tataria, and was the church
watchman and prosphora-baker in her native village. On February 22, 1930
she was arrested, and on March 17 she was convicted of being “a participant
in an anti-Soviet grouping” and of “religious agitation against the enterprises
of Soviet power: she spread rumours about a supposed holy fire in the
church”. In accordance with article 58-11 she was sentenced to death, but this
was commuted to ten years in the camps. Nothing more is known about her.
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