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reader in the village of Beberino, Barnavinsky uyezd, Kostroma province. Not
later than 1914 he was ordained to the diaconate. On October 2, 1919, in order
to avoid the famine, he sailed with his family on barges along the rivers
Volga, Kama and Bela to Birsk, where he began to serve in the Archangel
Michael church in January, 1920. In that year he was ordained to the
priesthood and was sent to the village of Abyzovo, Birsk uyezd, then (in 1925)
to Inzersky Factory, then (in 1927) to the village of Sasykul, Sterlitamak
canton. On June, 1928 he was made rector of the church in the village of
Nikolayevka, Sterlitamak canton after the arrest of Fr. Peter Valamov. At the
same time he looked after the church in the village of Preobrazhenkovka,
where he was appointed rector on April 15, 1930. On December 9, 1930 he
was arrested in Preobrazhenka in connection with the protests of the believers
against the closure of the church and cast into the House of Correction in
Sterlitamak. On February 7, 1931 he was sentenced in accordance with articles
58-10 and 58-11 to five years’ exile to the north and confiscation of his
property. In 1933 he died from illness in exile.
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Priest Alexander Yakovlevich Bannikov. He was arrested in 1931, and on
February 21, 1931 was sentenced to ten years in the camps. Nothing more is
known about him.
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Nun Valentina (Osipovna Shilova) was born in 1903 in the village of
Tastuba, Duvansky region, Bashkiria. On February 12, 1931 she was arrested
there, and on April 30 was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in accordance
with articles 58-10 part 2 and 58-13. Nothing more is known about her.
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Nun Salome, in the world Alexandra Ivanovna Zelinskaya. She was born
in 1872 in Ufa province and went to a gymnasium. From 1918 she was editor
of the newspaper “Trans-Volga Chronicle”. On April 13, 1929 she was
arrested and sentenced to three years in the camps. After her release from
camp she was exiled to Central Asia. Archbishop Andrew lived in her flat.
Nothing more is known about her.
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Hieromonk Damian (Demetrius Antonovich Lisitsyn) was born in 1863
into a peasant family. From 1884 to 1890 he served in the army. In 1891 he
entered the Verkhoturye monastery, where he became sacristan and treasurer.
On November 27, 1896 he was tonsured into monasticism, on October 22,
1898 was ordained to the diaconate, and in September, 1899. He became the
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