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Archimandrite Athanasius (Alexis Antonovich Mukhachev) was born in
1873 in Mukhachev settlement, Orlov uyezd, and became superior of the
Yaransk Znamensko-Mariinsky monastery in the rank of archimandrite. At
the beginning of 1929 he was arrested for being “a participant in the Vyatka
branch of the counter-revolutionary monarchist church organization, the True
Orthodox Church”, and on May 10 was sentenced to ten years in the camps
and sent to a camp. Nothing more is known about him.
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Priest Nicholas Vsevolodovich Lopatin was born in 1877 in the village of
Velikoretskoye, Khalturino region, Vyatka province. In 1926 he began to serve
as a priest in Kukarka sloboda (the city of Sovyetsk) in Vyatka province. In
the autumn he was arrested for “agitation against Soviet power”, and on
December 17 was sentenced, in accordance with articles 58-13, 69 and 72 to
three years’ exile in Zyryansk region (Sysolsk uyezd). His sentence was due to
end on August 8, 1929, but on July 12, 1929 he was again sentenced, in
accordance with articles 69 and 72, to three years’ deprivation of the right to
live in the central cities and provinces of Russia. On December 23 he was
released, but restricted to living in one place for three years. Nothing more is
known about him.
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Priest Constantine Karpovich Mokhov was born in 1879 in the village of
Vozhdovo, Vyatka province. He was arrested in the village of Bakhily,
Sarapul region, Udmurtia, and on September 20, 1929 was sentenced to three
years’ exile in Siberia.
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Priest Alexis Petrovich Polushin was born in 1891 in the village of
Kodachigi, Yaransk uyezd, Vyatka province. On May 10, 1929 he was
condemned by the OGPU in accordance with article 58-10 to three years’ exile
in the Urals. Nothing more is known about him.
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Nun Nadezhda, in the world Nadezhda Ivanovna Korotkova, lived in a
monastery in the village of Medyany, Nizhni-Novgorod province. After the
destruction of the monastery she went to live in the village of Kamenki, where
she was arrested at the end of the 1920s. Having spent eight or nine years in
prison, she died in the arms of her fellow-prisoner, Anastasia, who was also
from Medyany. Anastasia and the guards heard angelic singing at her death.
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