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virulent enemy of Soviet power and all its enterprises”. In accordance with
articles 58-10 and 58-11, he was sentenced to three years in the camps. In 1933
he was again condemned for “anti-Soviet activity” and was exiled. On
returning from exile in 1937, he lived “without definite occupation” in Samara
(Kuibyshev). On November 30, 1937 he was arrested in Samara and cast into
the barracks of the correctional labour facility. He was accused of
“participation in an underground counter-revolutionary church-sectarian
organization”, and on December 21 was sentenced to be shot. This was part of
“The Case of Archbishop Alexander (Trapitsyn) and others, Samara, 1938”.
The sentence was carried out in Samara on January 14, 1938.
Priest James Ivanovich Nikolsky. He was born in 1876 in the village of
Batraki, Syzran uyezd, Samara province into the family of a priest. He finished
his studies at Samara theological seminary, and in 1919 began to serve as a
priest in the villages of Kanadel, Syzran uyezd, and Abaydulino,
Sengileyevsky uyezd, Simbirsk province. In 1921 he was transferred to the
church of SS. Peter and Paul, Syzran. In 1922 he was arrested in Syzran and
cast into prison for two weeks, after which he was released. In 1923 he was
arrested again in Syzran, and this time was held for one month. In 1924 he was
arrested for a third time, was put into prison for four months, but was then
acquitted and released. He continued serving in the church of SS. Peter and
Paul, and from 1930 – in the Kazan cathedral in Syzran. He was married to
Sophia Pavlovna (born 1881) and had a son. On February 21, 1931 he was
arrested in Syzran, and was cast into the Syzran Domzak. On October 28, 1931
he was convicted of “counter-revolutionary agitation, of being an active
member of the leading core of the church-mercenary-monarchist organization,
‘The Trues [True Orthodox Christians?]’, one of the pillars of Tikhonitism, an
irreconcilable warrior against Soviet power and the declaration of
Metropolitan Sergius”. In accordance with articles 58-10 and 58-11, he was
sentenced to three years’ exile to the north. He refused to recognize his guilt.
Nothing more is known about him.
Priest Constantine Andreyevich Magayev. He was born in 1896 in the
village of Otovozero, Olonets province, and served in the village of Staroye
Baytermishevo, Klyavlinsky region, Samara district. On February 27, 1931 he
was arrested, accused of “participation in the church-monarchist counterrevolutionary
organization ‘The Trues [True Orthodox Christians?]’ and
sentenced to three years in the camps in accordance with article 58-10. Nothing
more is known about him.
Deacon Boris Alexandrovich Semyonov. He was born in 1900 in St.
Petersburg into the family of the typesetter of the journal Niva. Until 1916
(1918?) he studied in a technical school attached to the Gosznak factory, and
then until 1920 he worked in this factory. In 1920 his family moved to
Moscow, where he began to work as a clerk. Then he was laid off and from
1923 to 1926 studied in a technical institute for nursery gardening. In 1922 he
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