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planted (they decided not to write the names of those killed). Within a week
they came for ‘the pope’s goods’. They took all the clothes, books, utensils,
tablecloths and napkins which matushka herself had sewn – she was a
needlewoman. They succeeded in keeping a jacket – they’d thrown it into the
manure. Now on the place of the burial of the twelve shot men there is a small
hillock, and some spikes from the fence have remained. There is no cross…”
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Priest Nicholas Pokrovsky was born in 1864, and was killed on March 18,
1919 in Simbirsk province.
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Deacon Michael Mongolov was serving in the village of Karalat,
Astrakhan uyezd, Astrakhan province. In 1919 he was convicted by the
Karalat military field tribunal created by the communists of being “a
participant in a counter-revolutionary rebellion of peasants of the village in
March, 1919”. He was shot on March 25, 1919.
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Priest Seraphim Sarychev was shot after the paschal Liturgy at Gondatyevka
station.
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Priest James Alexeyevich Dobrokhotov was serving in the village of Lesnoye,
Sengileyevsky uyezd, Simbirsk province. On July 8, 1919 he was arrested and
accused of “counter-revolutionary activity”. He was sentenced to death and
was shot.
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Priest Michael Dmitrievich Dobrolyubov was born in 1862 in the village of
Pirzavka, Petrovsk uyezd, Saratov province. He was serving in the village of
Varypayevka, Atkarsk uyezd, Saratov province. He was arrested on a charge
of “anti-Soviet agitation among the believers”, and on July 9, 1919 was
sentenced to be shot. On July 13 he was shot in the city of Atkarsk.
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Priest Averyan Spiridinovich Grishin was born in 1867 in Penza province.
He was the president of the Union of the Archangel Michael. In February, 1919
he was arrested, and on October 9 he was shot by the Saratov cheka.
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