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in the Kazan cathedral in Syzran. On February 21, 1931 he was arrested and
cast into the Syzran domzak for being “a participant in a counterrevolutionary
church-monarchist organization and preparing a rebellious
mood in the masses of believers”. On October 28, 1931 he was sentenced to
three years’ exile in the north in accordance with articles 58-10 and 58-11.
Michael Andreyevich Lyabin. He was born in November, 1888 in the
second Saratovsky poselok, Sharlyksky region, Middle Volga region into a
peasant family. He finished his studies at a village school. When the region
was occupied by the Whites in 1918-19 he helped them with animals, bread,
etc. He lived in the village of Pletnevka, Sharlyksky region, and had a wife,
Eudocia (born 1890), and had three sons and a daughter. He was arrested for
the first time in March, 1930 and was sentenced to the confiscation of two
horses in accordance with article 61. On November 3, 1930 he was arrested
again and accused of “participation in the counter-revolutionary organization
‘the Trues [True Orthodox Christians?]’”, and sentenced to five years in the
camps in accordance with articles 58-10, 58-11 and 59-7. Nothing more is
known about him.
Michael Petrovich Rasskazov. He was born in 1873 in the village of
Lipovka in the Lower Volga region into a peasant family. In 1885 he finished
his studies at the village school of Lipovka. He was married to Lyubov
Fyodorovna (born 1873) and had two sons and two daughters. In 1930 he was
working as a hired labourer. On December 11, 1930 he was arrested in Syzran
and cast into Syzran Domzak. On October 28, 1931 he was given an unknown
sentence in accordance with articles 58-10 and 58-11. Nothing more is known
about him.
Theodore Pavlovich Zhegalov. He was born in 1883 or 1873 in the village
of Chekalino, Syzran uyezd, Samara province into a peasant family. Before
1914 he worked as a peasant and had a grocery stall. During the First World
War he served in the tsarist army. In 1918, during the retreat of the Whites, he
went with them to Krasnoyarsk and lived there until 1921. In 1922 he was on
invalidity pension. In the 1920s he was deprived of his civil rights, and was a
member of the church council of the Ascension church in Syzran. In 1927, and
again in 1928, he was arrested and cast into Syzran Domzak, but was soon
released. In 1928 he was elected by a district deanery meeting to go to Moscow
“about a bishop”. In Moscow he met Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky).
From 1929 he worked as a nightwatchman. He was married to Praskovya
Mikhailovna (born 1882), and had two daughters and a son. On February 21,
1931 he was arrested and cast into Syzran Domzak. On October 28 he was
convicted of “being an active member and in the ruling core of the churchmercantile-monarchist
organization, ‘The Trues’”. In accordance with articles
58-10 and 58-11, he was sentenced to three years’ exile in the north. Nothing
more is known about him.
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