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Priest Vladimir Perfilyevich (?) Dubrovin was the rector of the Pokrov
cathedral in the city of Kuznetsk, Saratov province. In the summer of 1919 he
was shot together with other priests in Kuznetsk.
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Priest Alexis Ivanovich Razumov was born in 1871 in the family of Priest
Ivan Fyodorovich Razumov in the village of Yulovo, Karsunsky uyezd (now
Inzensky region). In 1893 he finished a complete science course at the
Simbirsk theological seminary, and on December 22, 1893 he was ordained as
deacon of the village of Kabayevo, Alatyr uyezd, by Bishop Barsonuphius. On
May 9, 1895 he was ordained as priest of the church of the Archangel Michael
in the village of Vyazovka, Sengileyevsky uyezd (now Mainsky region). On
March 2, 1900 he was transferred to the village of Kitovka, Karsunsky uyezd
(now the town of Inza), where he served in the church of the Nativity of the
Mother of God until his death in 1918. From 1895 Fr. Alexis was teacher of the
Law of God in a land school, and was also headmaster and teacher of the Law
of God in a church school from 1907. He was also trustee of a labourers'
farmstead which was under the main trusteeship of the Empress Alexandra
Fyodorovna, for which Her Majesty thanked him on September 9, 1899. In
1901 he was given the blessing of the Holy Synod for his zealous aid to the
population suffering from a fire. He was married to the daughter of a priest,
Elizabeth Nikolayevna Pisareva (1877-1943) and had eight children.
Fr. Alexis perished together with his youngest son Nicholas (born 1911)
from a bomb thrown by Red Army soldiers through the window of his house.
He was buried in the Kitovo cemetery.
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Priest John Ilyinsky of the village of Sh... was shot by unknown people in 1918 in
the village of Nikolsk. He had been accused of counter-revolution, but the Simbirsk
revolutionary tribunal admitted in 1919 that there was no evidence for that.
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Deacon Peter Grigoryevich Petrovsky and Reader Nikolayev were shot on March
3/16, 1919 in the village of Repyevka-Ksomynka.
Fr. Peter was born in 1855 in the village of Annenkovo, Simbirsk uyezd
(now Annenkovo, Stepnoye Tsilinsky region), in the family of a junior deacon.
He completed his studies as the Simbirsk theological school, after which he
became a novice in the Hierarchical House (the former Pokrovsky monastery)
in Simbirsk. On November 29, 1872 he was appointed junior deacon for the
small town of Yushansk, Simbirsk uyezd (now the village of Yushanskoye,
Mainsky region). On May 11, 1875, for an incorrect handing out of two birth-
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