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organization”, and on July 9 was sentenced to ten years in the camps. Nothing
more is known about her.
Nun Zinaida (Grigoryevna Vasilyuk) was born in 1897 in the village of
Kamenets, Brest-Litovsk uyezd, Grodno province into a peasant family. In
1905 she was tonsured and joined the Dormition monastery. After the closure
of the monastery she lived in Bilyarskoye region, Chistopol province. On
March 8, 1931 she was arrested for being “a member of a counterrevolutionary
monarchist organization”, and was accused of “leading a
counter-revolutionary group of churchmen in the village of Bilyarskoye,” of
spreading provocative rumours and counter-revolutionary leaflets”, of
“inciting believers to the appearance of a miracle in 1927” and of “threatening
collective farmers”. On July 9 she was sentenced to ten years in the camps and
was sent to a camp. Nothing more is known about her.
Nun Barbara (Nikolayevna Serova) was born in 1865 or 1862 in the village
of Bilyarskoye, Tataria into a peasant family. She became a nun in the
Dormition monastery, and from 1909 - a hermitess, living in a cell next to the
holy source in Bilyarskoye region. She was disenfranchised. On April 8, 1931
she was arrested for being “a member of a counter-revolutionary monarchist
organization”, and accused, “with other members of the group”, of
“spreading provocative rumours” and “distributing leaflets of a counterrevolutionary
content”, and of “taking part in disturbances because of the
closure of the church”. On July 9, 1931 she was sentenced to death. On July 11
she was shot.
Nun Eudocia (Yakovlevna Suslova) was born in 1876 in the village of
Bilyarskoye, Tataria into a peasant family. She was tonsured in the Dormition
monastery, and from 1922, after the closure of the monastery, lived as a
hermitess in a cell next to the holy source in Bilyarskoye region. She was
disenfranchised. On March 8, 1931 she was arrested for being “a member of a
counter-revolutionary monarchist organization”, and accused of being “a
participant in an anti-Soviet church group in the village of Bilyarskoye”, of
“distributing counter-revolutionary leaflets and spreading rumours against
the collective farms”, and also of “taking an active part in massive
disturbances because of the closure of churches”. On July 9, 1931 she was
sentenced to five years in the camps, and was sent to a camp. Nothing more is
known about her.
Nun Anna (Ivanovna Mironova) was born in 1866 in Chistopol. In early
childhood she became a nun in the Dormition monastery. In the middle of the
1920s she was disenfranchised. After the closure of the monastery she lived in
the villages of Chistopol province. On April 8, 1931 she was arrested for being
“a member of a counter-revolutionary monarchist organization”, and on July
9 was sentenced to death. On July 11 she was shot.
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