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he was condemned to one year’s forced labour for not handing over bread
reserves. In 1921 he was sentenced to three years in the camps. This sentence
was reduced to eighteen months on amnesty on June 22, 1921. After his
release he returned to Kuzaikino, and after the church’s closure worked as a
tailor. In 1929 he was fined for fifty rubles for not handing over bread
reserves. On October 18, 1929 he was arrested in a group church case and
accused that: “he grouped around himself the clergy of surrounding villages,
and for three years systematically conducted agitation against the soviets and
their enterprises”. On December 23 he was sentenced to three years in the
camps and sent to Solovki. In July, 1932 he was released and returned to his
homeland. In 1933 he was arrested for being “the leader of a religiomonarchist
group of True Orthodox Churchmen”. On June 16 he was
sentenced to ten years in the camps and sent to a camp (Nizhnyaya
Tunguska). Nothing more is known about him.
Priest Philip Demyanovich Gorbunov was born in 1892 in the village of
Maly Batras, Zainsk uyezd, where he served. He was a member of the
Brotherhood of St. Gurias. On February 25, 1930 he was arrested, but on April
13 he was released and the case shelved. On March 26, 1933 he was arrested
again for being “a participant in a religio-monarchist counter-revolutionary
group of True Orthodox Churchmen”, and on June 16 was sentenced to eight
years in the camps and sent to a camp. Nothing more is known about him.
Priest Andrew Nikolayevich Fokin was born in 1899 in the village of
Russkij Aktash, Almetyevsk uyezd. He served in the village of Yelan,
Almetyevsk uyezd. On March 23, 1933 he was arrested for being “a
participant in a religio-monarchist counter-revolutionary group of True
Orthodox Churchpeople”, and on June 16 was sentenced to eight years in the
camps and sent to a camp. Nothing more is known about him.
Priest Peter Zakharovich Pokarov was born in 1880 in the village of
Klyaush, Mamadysh uyezd. He served in the village of But, Almetyevsk
region, and was a member of the brotherhood of St. Gurias. On March 23,
1933 he was arrested for being “a participant in a religio-monarchist counterrevolutionary
group of True Orthodox Churchmen”, and on June 16 was
sentenced to ten years in the camps and sent to a camp. Nothing more is
known about him.
His wife, Euphrosyne Ivanovna Pokarova, was born in 1884 in the village
of Maly Tolkish, Chistopol uyezd, and was a member of the brotherhood of
St. Gurias. On March 26, 1933 she was arrested for being “a participant in a
religio-monarchist counter-revolutionary group of True Orthodox
Churchmen”, and on June 16 was sentenced to five years in the camps and
sent to a camp. Nothing more is known about her.
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