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school. He served as a reader in Belorussia. In 1927 he was ordained to the
priesthood. In 1929 he was arrested, and sentenced to three years’ exile in the
village of Vilgort, Ust-Kulomsky region, in accordance with article 58-10. On
September 15, 1932 he was arrested again and cast in to Syktyvkar prison. On
April 27, 1933 he was condemned and sentenced in accordance with articles
58-10 part 2 and 58-11 to three years’ exile in the north. Nothing more is
known about him.
Nun Ierusalima, in the world Catherine Nikitichna Kasif, was born in 1880
in the village of Verknyaya Belozerka, Melitopol province, Ukraine. She went
to a church-parish school, and then entered the St. Joseph monastery, serving
as treasurer. In 1930 she was arrested and sentenced to three years’ exile in
the north in accordance with article 54-10. She was sent to the village of Bad-
Yel, Ust-Kulom region, Komi, where, on September 15, 1932, she was arrested
again and cast into prison in Syktyvkar. On April 27, 1933 she was convicted
and sentenced in accordance with articles 58-10 and 58-11, but was released in
view of the time she had already spent in prison. Nothing more is known
about her.
Reader Sergius Konstantinovich Popov. He was born in 1878 in the
village of Barzhenka, Veliky Ustyug uyezd, Vologda province. He finished
three classes at Veliky Ustyug theological school. He went to serve in the
Sinegorskaya church, Veliky Ustyug uyezd. During the First World War he
served in the army. In 1929 he was arrested, cast into the prison in the village
of Kyrnysha, Ust-Kulomsky region, Komi ASSR, and condemned to three
years’ exile in accordance with article 58-10. On September 15, 1932 he was
arrested while in exile and cast into prison in Syktyvkar. On April 16, 1933 he
was convicted in accordance with articles 58-10 part 2 and 58-11 and was
sentenced to three years’ exile in the north. Nothing more is known about
him.
Reader Alexander Alexandrovich Tikhomirov. He was born in 1871 in the
village of Blagoveschenskoye, Vologda province into the family of a sacristan.
He became a reader in Vologda province, but from 1925 to 1930 did not serve
in church, but worked on the land. In 1930 he was arrested in his native
village and sentenced to three years’ exile in accordance with article 58-10. He
was exiled to the village of Kuzminki, Ust-Kulomsky region, Komi ASSR. On
September 15, 1932 he was arrested in exile and cast into prison in Syktyvkar.
On April 16, 1933 he was convicted in accordance with articles 58-10 part 2
and 58-11 and was sentenced to three years’ exile in the north. Nothing more
is known about him.
(Sources: Metropolitan Manuel (Lemeshevsky), Die Russischen Orthodoxen
Bischofe von 1893-1965, Erlangen, 1989, vol. VI, pp. 237-238; "Episkop Stefan",
Russkij Palomnik, N 5, 1992; M.E. Gubonin, Akty Svyateishago Patriarkha
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