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Hieromonk Hilarion, in the world Ivan Alexeyevich Ovinov. He was born
in 1880 in the village of Sukhaya Rechka, Buzuluk uyezd, Orenburg province.
In 1907 he was tonsured, and was later ordained to the priesthood, serving in a
monastery in Samara province. From 1910 he was serving in the Nikolayevsky
monastery in Samara, from 1917 – in a village parish, from 1918 – again in the
Nikolayevsky monastery, and from 1920 was spiritual father of the Iveron
women’s monastery. After its closure he continued serving in its church. In
1930 he was arrested for being “a participant in the Samara branch of the
counter-revolutionary monarchist church organization, the True Orthodox
Church”, and was sentenced to three years’ exile and was sent to the north. In
the middle of the 1930s, after his release from exile, he returned to Samara. On
September 29, 1937 he was arrested, and on December 21 was sentenced to
death. On January 16, 1938 he was shot.
Priest Michael Dmitrievich Adushev. He was born in 1882 in the village of
Baitermish, Buguruslan uyezd, Samara province. In the 1920s he was serving
in his native village. On February 12, 1930 he was arrested for being “a
participant in the Samara branch of the counter-revolutionary monarchist
church organization, the True Orthodox Church”, and on May 13 was
sentenced to ten years in the camps and sent to a camp in Kotlas, Arkhangelsk
province. Nothing more is known about him.
Priest Alexander Fyodorovich Antonov. He was born in the 1880s in the
village of Perekopnoye, Samara province, and served in the church of the
village of Kvasnikovo. On December 20, 1930 he was arrested for being “a
participant in the Samara branch of the counter-revolutionary monarchist
church organization, the True Orthodox Church”, and on August 31, 1931 was
sentenced to ten years in the camps and sent to a camp. On October 31, 1937 he
was arrested again. On December 9 he was sentenced to death, and on
December 11 he was shot.
Priest Xenophon Alexandrovich Arkhangelsky. He was born in 1878 in the
village of Kurumoch, Samara province, and served in the cathedral church of
Samara. On February 24, 1923 he was arrested, but on August 3 he was
released and his case was shelved because of lack of evidence of a crime. He
then served in the church of SS. Peter and Paul. On December 11, 1928 he was
arrested again, and on March 29 he was released but forbidden to live in six
cities for three years. In 1931 he returned to Samara, and on December 3 he
was arrested for being “a participant in the Samara branch of the counterrevolutionary
monarchist church organization, the True Orthodox Church”.
On April 13, 1932 he was sentenced to ten years in the camps and was sent to a
camp, where he died.
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