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archimandrite and dean of the women’s monasteries of Syzran uyezd.On July
12, 1912 he was appointed superior of the Ascension monastery in Syzran, and
in 1916 – superior of the Zhadovskaya Desert. In 1924 he was given a two-year
conditional sentence for “non-denunciation”. He was released from Simbirsk
Domzak and returned to the Zhadovskaya Desert. At the beginning of the
1920s the monastery was closed, but about twenty monks still remained in the
community and services continued in the Kazan church. Even after its formal
closure of the community in 1927 monks continued to serve there. Finally, in
July, 1929 the paralyzed Elder Basil from the village of Kopyshevka was
brought to the monastery. This served as the excuse for the conducting of a
criminal case against them, and on March 15, 1930 Archimandrite Callistus
and Hieromonks Damascene and Arcadius were arrested. On April 10 Fr.
Callistus was sentenced to five years in the camps, commuted to exile to the
north for the same period. He was sent to the Moscow-Volga canal. Nothing
more is known about him.
Hieromonk Damascene (Demetrius Gerasimovich Aristov). He was born in
1876 or 1877, and served in the Zhadovskaya Desert. He was sentenced to
three years in the camps. Nothing more is known about him.
Hieromonk Arcadius, in the world Alexander Kireyevich (Kirillovich)
Fokin. He was born in about 1893 and at first lived as a simple monk in the
Zhadovskaya Desert. He was sentenced to three years in the camps. Nothing
more is known about him.
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Priest Vladimir Petrovich Veselovsky was born in 1882 in the village of
Zeleniye Khutora, Atkarsk region, Saratov province. On August 14, 1929 he
was arrested for “anti-Soviet agitation among the believers (against the
removal of the bell in the church). On December 3 he was sentenced to ten
years’ imprisonment. Nothing more is known about him.
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Priest Alexander Alexandrovich Kurkov was born in 1884 in the village of
Shakhovskoye, Khvaynsky region, Saratov province, and served in the village
of N. Zakharkino, Atkarsk region, Saratov province. On October 31, 1929 he
was arrested for “anti-Soviet agitation”, and on January 25, 1931 was
sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. Nothing more is known about him.
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Alexander Ilarionovich Zakharov was born in 1877 in the village of
Tavolozhka, Petrovsky region, Saratov province. On November 6, 1929 he was
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