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Priest Alexander Semyonovich Agenosov was born in 1876 in the village
of Ati, Mamadysh uyezd, Kazan province into the family of a priest. He went
to a theological seminary, and service in the village of Maly Sundyr, Gorno-
Mariisk region. He was disenfranchised. On January 3, 1933 he was arrested
fro being “the leader of a counter-revolutionary cell of the church-monarchist
organization, the True Orthodox Church”, and on June 8 was sentenced to
three years’ exile and sent to the north. Nothing more is known about him.
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Hieromonk Palladius, in the world Paul Yerofeyevich Stepanov, was born
in 1863 in the village of Kurkuly, Alexeyevsky uyezd into a peasant family,
and received an elementary education. In 1883 he was tonsured in Seven
Lakes Desert with the name Palladius. In 1893 he was ordained to the
priesthood. In 1928, after the closure of the monastery, he became priest in the
church of his native village, but from 1929 was serving needs at home. On
April 7, 1931 he was arrested for being “a participant in a kulak-priest
grouping”, and was sentenced to death with confiscation of property and
exile of his family. On June 17 he was shot.
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Protopriest Paul Fedotovich Trifonov was born in 1869 in the village of
Zmievo, Chistopol uyezd. In 1891 he finished his studies at Kazan theological
seminary and was ordained to the priesthood. He served in the Rybno-
Slobodsky uyezd, and from 1905 in the cemetery church in Chistopol. In 1914
he was raised to the rank of protopriest. During the Civil War he went away
with the Whites. In 1922 he was serving again in the cemetery church in
Chistopol. On April 18, 1931 he was arrested for being “a member of a
counter-revolutionary monarchist organization”, and on July 9 he was
sentenced to ten years in the camps. Nothing more is known about him.
Hieromonk Plato (Vasilyevich Vasilyev) was born in 1878 in the village of
Pereputye, Chistopol canton into a peasant family. An invalid from birth, he
was raised and lived until 1917 in the house of the merchant Chukashev in
Chistopol. In the 1920s his legs were paralyzed, and he could not walk; he had
to be carried and looked after by acquaintances, among whom he was known
as Elder Plato. He had no constant domicile and had to live on alms. He was
the spiritual father of Fr. Michael Yershov. On March 7, 1931 he was arrested
for being “a member of a counter-revolutionary monarchist organization”. On
July 9 he was sentenced to death, and on July 12 he was shot.
Priest Basil Ilyich Rozhdestvensky was born in 1868 in the village of
Savrushi, Bilyarskoye uyezd, and went to Kazan theological seminary. He
lived in Chistopol, serving in the Nikolayevsky church, and was supervisor of
church-parish schools. On October 27, 1923 he was brought to trial for “hiding
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