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True Orthodox Church”. On August 19 he was sentenced to three years in the
camps and sent to a camp. Nothing more is known about him.
Hieromonk Gabriel, in the world Gabriel Alexeyevich Burtsev, was born
in 1871 in the village of Labazy, Buzuluk uyezd, Samara province into a
peasant family, and finished two classes at village school. He joined the
Myrrh-Bearers Desert, was tonsured and later ordained to the priesthood. In
1918 he was arrested, but released after fourteen days. In September, 1921 he
was working in the Myrrh-Bearers workers’ artel. In 1922 he was arrested,
and was released within five days. He lived in Tsarevokokshaisk and served
as a reader in the village of Kuznetsovo. In 1937 he was arrested, and August
19 sentenced to death and shot the same day in the prison of Yoshkar-Ola.
Hieromonk Maurice (Ilyich Petrov) was born in 1874 in the village of
Kuznetsovo, Tsarevokokshaisk uyezd into a peasant family, and finished
three classes at village school. From 1914 he was in the Myrrh-Bearers’ Desert,
was tonsured, and ordained to the diaconate. In 1918 he was disenfranchised.
In 1919 he was arrested and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. In 1921 he
was released, and from September he was working as treasurer of the Myrrh-
Bearers’ workers’ artel. In December, 1923 he was arrested for “distributing
religious literature and concealing church valuables”, but was released within
two months. He was ordained to the priesthood and served in his native
village. On December 30, 1932 he was arrested for being “a leader of a
counter-revolutionary group of followers of the True Orthodox Church”, and
on July 22, 1933 was sentenced to three years’ exile and sent to the north.
After his release he returned to his native village. In the summer of 1937 he
was arrested, and on August 19 was sentenced to death and shot.
Hieromonk Basil (Bystrov) was from 1915 a novice in the Myrrh-Bearers
Desert. He was tonsured and later ordained to the priesthood. In September,
1921 he was working in the Myrrh-Bearers workers’ artel. In 1937 he was
arrested, and August 20 sentenced to eight years in the camps ands sent to a
damp, where, on November 2, 1941, he died.
Hierodeacon Nicholas Alexandrovich Yurichev was born in 1900 in the
village of Yezhovo, Tsarekokshaisk uyezd, and became a novice in the Desert
of the Myrrh-Bearers. From 1921 he was working the Myrrh-Bearers labour
artel. At the end of 1923 he was arrested for “hiding church valuables”, and
on February 2, 1924 was sentenced to one year’s incarceration. In December
he was released. He was ordained to the diaconate and served in the
Resurrection cathedral in Tsarekokshaisk. On May 18, 1931 he was arrested
for being “a participant in a counter-revolutionary cell of the True Orthodox
Church”, and on August 20 was sentenced to three years in the camps and
sent to a camp. Nothing more is known about him.
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