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Priest Alexis Pobedonostev served in a church in Kazan. At the beginning
of the 1930s he was arrested in a group case, sentenced to death and shot.
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Priest Michael Samsonovich Bespalov. He was born in 1866 in Kazan in
the family of a priest, and went to a theological seminary. In 1886 he was
ordained and became the priest of the church in Volchya sloboda. In 1901 he
finished missionary courses. In January, 1930, after the closure of the church,
he was arrested for being “a fervent Tikhonite”, and was accused of
“organizing a secret meeting of the church council with regard to the closing
of the church” and of “collecting signature to a declaration to the region
soviet”. On February 24, 1930 he was sentenced to death with confiscation of
his property and the exile of his family to the north. On May 6 he was shot.
Nicholas Dmitrievich Bezhentsev. He was born in 1875 in Volchya
Sloboda, Nizhne-Sheshminsk volost, Chistopol canton into a peasant family,
and received an elementary education. He was disenfranchised and a member
of a church council. In January, 1930 he was arrested for being “a participant
in illegal meetings where questions were allowed concerning the means and
methods of struggle against various campaigns, in particular the closing of
the church and the building of collective farms”. On February 24 he was
sentenced to five years in the camps with confiscation of property. Nothing
more is known about him.
Ivan Ephremovich Ostolopov was born in 1882 in Volchya Sloboda,
Nizhne-Sheshminsk volost, Chistopol canton into a peasant family, and
received an elementary education. In 1915 he was called up into the army,
and served as a private. From January, 1917 he was serving in the police, and
from May was working as treasurer in a savings bank. From 1919 he was
working in the fields. In January, 1930 he was arrested for being “a participant
in illegal meetings where questions were allowed concerning the means and
methods of struggle against various campaigns, in particular the closing of
the church and the building of collective farms”. On February 24 he was
sentenced to five years in the camps with confiscation of property. Nothing
more is known about him.
Adrian Yakovlevich Lobashev was born in 1895 in Volchya sloboda,
Nizhne-Sheshminsk volost, Chistopol canton into a peasant family. He
worked in the fields and was president of the church council. He was
disenfranchised. After the closure of the church he gathered between 200 and
300 signatures of believers on a petition to the Tataria ispolkom that “the
church was closed incorrectly, ince there was no decision of a common
meeting, and the village soviet closed the church in accordance with a decree
that was against the will of the citizens”. In January, 1930 he was arrested for
being “the organizer of illegal meeting in which were decided questions of the
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