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was sentenced to six months’ hard labour. In the summer of 1937 he was
arrested for being “a participant in the counter-revolutionary organization of
churchpeople, ‘the True Orthodox Church’”, and on September 29 was
sentenced to death. He was shot on October 14.
Priest Alexander Alexandrovich Dyurbaum was born in 1873 in Yaransk
into a family of bureaucrats. He served in the village of Bystritsy, Orichevo
region. In 1930 he was arrested and sentenced to two years in the camps and
sent to a camp. After his release he returned to serve in Bystritsy. In the
summer of 1937 he was arrested for being “a participant in the counterrevolutionary
organization of churchpeople, ‘the True Orthodox Church’”,
and on September 29 was sentenced to death. He was shot on October 14.
Priest Theodore Yefimovich Yefimov was born in 1882 in the village of
Kutyuk-Kiner, Morkinsk uyezd, Nizhegorod province, and went to a
theological seminary. A priest of the Victorite orientation, he served in the
village of Belyaevo, Kiknur region. In 1930 he was under investigation, but
was justified. In the summer of 1937 he was arrested for being “a participant
in the counter-revolutionary organization of churchpeople, ‘the True
Orthodox Church’”, and on September 29 was sentenced to death. He was
shot on October 14.
Priest Paul Kornilovich Bondal was born in 1879 in the village of Grigory,
Belskaya volost, Belorussia, and finished three classes in the village school
and eight months of theological course. A priest of the Victorite orientation,
he served in the village of Trekhrechye, Vyatka province. In 1931 he was
arrested, and on October 12 was sentenced to three years in the camps and
sent to a camp. In 1934, after being released from camp, he was exiled for
three years to the north. After his release he returned to Vyatka province. In
the summer of 1937 he was arrested for being “a participant in the counterrevolutionary
organization of churchpeople, ‘the True Orthodox Church’”,
and on September 29 was sentenced to death. He was shot on October 14.
Nun Maria (Petrovna Sadakova) was born in 1894 in the village of Sadaki,
Chepetsk uyezd, Vyatka province into a peasant family. She became a nun in
a Vytka monastery. Then she lived in Vyatka without fixed occupation. In the
summer of 1937 she was arrested for being “a participant in a counterrevolutionary
organization of churchmen, the ‘True Orthodox Church’”, and
on September 29 was sentenced to ten years in the camps and sent to a camp.
Nothing more is known about her.
Nun Matrona (Petrovna Trefilova) was born in 1892 in the village of
Barsuki, Kotelnich uyezd, Vyatka province into a peasant family. After the
closure of her monastery, she lived in the village of Atsvezh, Svechino region,
working as a prosphora-baker in the local church. In 1926 she was arrested,
and on March 26 was released but not allowed to live in twelve places for
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