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Priest James Nikitiovich Korolkov was born in 1876 in the village of
Zubovka, Buguruslan uyezd, Samara province, and served in the village of
Devlezerkino in the same uyezd. In 1929 he was arrested, and on September 3,
1929 he was sentenced to five years in the camps. Nothing more is known
about him.
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Reader Basil Akimovich Dalmatov was born in 1893 in the village of Orlov
Gaj, Dergachevsky region, Saratov province. He served in the village of
Zeleniye Khutora, Atkarsk region, Saratov province. On August 15, 1929 he
was arrested for “anti-Soviet agitation among the believers”. On December 3
he was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. Nothing more is known about
him.
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Athanasius Vasilyevich Zaitsev was born in 1880, and was a member of
the church council in the village of Davlezerkino, Buguruslan uyezd, Samara
province. In 1929 he was arrested and sentenced to three years’ exile in the
north. Nothing more is known about him.
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Protopriest Nicholas Pavlovich Razhdayev was born in 1849, and was
serving in the village of Aglashi, Ulyanovsk province. In 1929 he was arrested
and imprisoned in Ardatov, Nizhni-Novgorod province, where he died in the
same year.
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Nun Raisa (Lvovna Pokrovskaya) was born on September 5, 1862 in the
village of Kazachka, Samoilovsky region, Saratov province into the family of a
deacon. She received a good education and worked as a teacher for most of
her life. She entered a monastery in Balashev, Saratov province. After its
closure in 1923, the nuns managed to obtain permission to open a monastic
community in its place, and Mother Raise continued to live in the community.
In 1929 the authorities closed this community, too. On March 13, 1930 she was
arrested in Balashov for “distributing clearly anti-Soviet rumours among the
population, and having links with nuns in the surrounding villages, through
whom she worked on the local population in an anti-Soviet spirit”. She did
not admit her guilt. On June 9 she was condemned for “anti-Soviet agitation”
and exiled to Voronezh, where, three months later, she died.
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