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various terms of punishment. Fr. Basil refused to accept any guilt, he said that
he had formed no anti-Soviet organization, and that the community of 150
people which he had formed pursued purely religious ends.
Also convicted in this case were:
Monk Theodore Yegorovich Novikov. He was born in 1900 in the village
of Belozerki, Kashirinsky region, Orenburg district into a peasant family. From
1919 to 1921 he served in the Red Army, and from 1921 to 1922 – in the armies
of the OGPU in Turkestan. He had a wife, Eudocia Vasilyevna. In 1928 he was
made a monk by Fr. Basil (Kudryukov) in the church on Mayak, Orenburg. On
November 30, 1930 he was arrested and cast into Orenburg Domzak. He “was
an active supporter of Fr. Basil Kudryukov”. He was sentenced in accordance
with articles 58-10, 58-11 and 59-7 to three years in the camps conditionally.
Nothing more is known about him.
Nun Sylvestra, in the world Darya Prokofyevna Kurdyukova. She was
born in March, 1880 in Bogorodsk, Moscow province, or the village of
Bogorodskoye, Kashirinsky uyezd into a merchant’s family. She was the wife
of Priest Moses Kudryukov and had three or four children. In 1923 she went to
live in Orenburg. In 1926 she was made a nun by her husband. Fr. Basil and
his matushka were followers of Bishop Demetrius (Lyubimov) of Gdov. She
was arrested together with her daughter Natalya by the OGPU on January 3,
1931 and was cast into Orenburg Domzak. On March 26, 1931 she was
condemned for “leadership of the Kudryukov part of the Orenburg city
counter-revolutionary church organization, ‘The Trues’”. In accordance with
articles 58-11 (counter-revolutionary organizational activity) and 59-7
(agitation of a revolutionary nature), she was sentenced to be shot. The
sentence was carried out on April 5, 1931 at 4.25 a.m.
F.P. Tuchin and K.A. Nasekin. They lived in the village of Nizhne-
Arkhangelskoye, Orenburg region. They went to services in the house of Fr.
Basil Kudryukov. They were arrested in 1929, and on April 19, 1930 were
convicted of “participation in the Nizhne-Arkhangelskoye group of the anti-
Soviet organization under the leadership of Priest Kudryukov”. They were
sentenced to a term in the camps. Nothing more is known about them.
Matthew Yegorovich Nikulochkin. He was a peasant from Orlovsky
khutor, Sharlyksky region. He was arrested in 1929 or 1930 by the Orenburg
OGPU, convicted in accordance with article 58-10 of “participation in the
Kurkyukov sect” and sentenced to three years’ exile to Arkhangelsk province.
Nothing more is known about him.
His son, Stepan Matveyevich Nikulochkin, was born on December 26,
1899 in Orlovsky khutor. He finished two classes in the village school. He
served for two years in the Red Army, from 1919 to 1921. He had a wife:
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