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was accused, together with other professors of the Academy, of “organizing
on the territory of the Tatar ASSR a branch of the All-Union Centre of the
church-monarchist organization, ‘The True Orthodox Church’… He spoke for
the necessity of bringing up children in the spirit of the church-parish schools,
and defended in his judgements the beneficial influence of the Tsars on
Russian life.” On January 5, 1932 he was sentenced to three years in exile in
Kazakhstan. During his exile in Kazakhstan, Ivan Mikhailovich was very ill.
He suffered from emphysema of the lungs, asthma and heart defects. On July
22, 1932 he was allowed to live freely in the USSR as a kind of partial
amnesty. On April 19, 1941 he died from a heart attack in the office of the
director of the Kazan State Museum while handing over to the museum some
documents from his archive on the shooting of the peasants in the village of
Bezdno, Spassky uyezd. Now his house, which he built in 1902 in Kazan and
in which he lived until his death, has been called officially “Pokrovsky house”
and has been made a historical monument.
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Ivan Nikolayevich Sokolov was born in 1901 in the village of Sekines,
Mamadysh uyezd, Kazan province into the family of a priest. He went to the
Kazan agriculturual institute. He lived in Kazan and worked as an assistant
expert on field crop cultivation in the Bugulma experimental agricultural
stations. In 1920 he was arrested “for refusing to serve in the army and for
propaganda in among the recruits in relation to military service”. He was
sentenced to two years in the camps. After his release he returned to Kazan.
On February 6, 1931 he was arrested in a group church case, and was accused
that: “being until July, 1930 a student, he made links between the Kazan
counter-revolutionary organization of churchmen and the student body. He
discussed methods of struggling against Soviet power. He prepared a massive
protest of the student body against the closure of St. Barbara’s church.” On
January 5, 1932 he was sentenced to three years in the camps. Nothing more is
known about him.
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Priest Peter Yefimovich Igumnov was born in 1852 in the village of
Darovskoye, Kotelnich uyezd, Vyatka province, and served in the village of
Yakovlevo, Yelabuga region, Tataria. On November 14, 1931 he was arrested,
and in 1932 he was condemned in accordance with article 58-11 for “anticollective
farm agitation” and “burning down collective farm property”. On
January 21, 1932 he died in hospital during his investigation.
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Priest Nicholas Alexandrovich Modestov was born in 1893 in Tver, and
went to a theological seminary. He served in the village of Naumovka,
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