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33. HIEROMARTYRS AND MARTYRS OF VYATKA,
UDMURTIA AND KOMI PROVINCES
Protopriest Paul Alexandrovich Dernov was the son of a Glazov priest,
and went to missionary courses at the Kazan Theological Academy. He
headed a Temperance Brotherhood organized by Bishop Ambrose (Gudko) in
Yelabuga, Vyatka province, where, on February 27, 1918, he was shot by the
Bolsheviks. His three children, Boris, Gregory and Simeon, were also shot
because one of them, on hearing of the martyric death of his father, called the
Red Guards soul-destroyers. He was commemorated as a martyr by Patriarch
Tikhon on March 31, 1918.
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Basil Alexeyevich Lozhkin was chief clerk in Vyatka spiritual consistory,
in which post he was distinguished for his fervent service. On August 22, 1918
he was arrested, and on September 4 he was condemned to be shot. This
execution was part of the “red terror” unleashed in revenge for the attempts
on the lives of Lenin and Uritsky.
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Priest Alexander Orlov was born in 1865 in the village of Ilgino, Orel
uyezd, Vyatka province, and was serving in his native village. On September
18, 1918 he was arrested and convicted by a military-revolutionary tribunal of
“counter-revolutionary activity”. He was sentenced to two years’
imprisonment. Nothing more is known about him.
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Priest Theodore Ivanovich Natonichnykh was born in the city of
Slobodskoy, Vyatka province, and served in the Pokrov church in Vyatka. On
September 19, 1918 he was sentenced to death by the Cheka, and was shot at
the age of 53 as a “counter-revolutionary”.
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Priest Sergius Dmitrievich Yemelyanov was born in 1872 in the village of
Pokrovskoye, Kotelnichi uyezd, Vyatka province, where he also served. On
October 4, 1918 he was arrested for “calling on parishioners not to give gold
and silver from the church to Soviet power”. He was sentenced to death and
was shot.
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