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Peter Petrovich Yurichev was born in 1885 in the village of
Podmonastyrskaya Sloboda, Tsarevokokshaisk uyezd. A free peasant, he
finished two classes at village school. In 1923 he was under investigation “for
counter-revolutionary work”, but was released after two months. He went
underground. On December 30, 1932 he was arrested for being “a participant
in a counter-revolutionary group of followers of the True Orthodox Church”,
and on July 22, 1933 was sentenced to seven months’ imprisonment and freed
in view of the time he has already spent in prison. He returned to Mari
republic. In 1946 he was arrested, and on March 5 sentenced to ten months in
the camps and sent to a camp. Nothing more is known about him.
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Michael Ivanovich Pavlovsky was born in 1909 in the village of Yezhovo,
Tsarevokokshaisk uyezd, and received an elementary education. He lived as a
free peasant in the village of Yezhovo. On October 24, 1945 he was arrested
for being “a participant in the anti-Soviet underground of the True Orthodox
Church”, and was sentenced to ten years in the camps and sent to Usollag. On
May 27, 1947 he was arrested in camp “for counter-revolutionary sabotage”,
and on July 28 was sentenced to ten years in the camps and sent to a camp.
Nothing more is known about him.
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Deacon Athanasius Ignatyevich Kasyanov was born in 1902 in the village
of Guslyanka, Kiknursky uyezd, Vyatka province. He lived in the village of
Shapta, Kiknursky region, Vyatka province. After his ordination to the
diaconate by Archbishop Demetrius of Gdov he served in the village of
Berezovaya. On February 17, 1932 he was arrested, and on August 14 was
sentenced to three years’ exile and sent to the north. After his release he went
underground. In the spring of 1935 he was arrested again in Arkhangelsk for
conducting illegal services and on March 9 was sentenced to five years in the
camps and sent to a camp. After his release he returned to his homeland,
where, on September 7, 1946, he was arrested for being “a participant in an
anti-Soviet religious group”. On March 25, 1947 he was sentenced to death in
Kazan for being an active member of the True Orthodox Church, but on May
25 this sentence was commuted to ten years in the camps and he was sent to a
camp. On August 4, 1955 he was released. Nothing more is known about him.
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Priest John Vasilyevich Razgulin was born in 1901 in the village of
Russkaya Lisa, Sanchur uyezd, Vyatka province, where he lived and worked
as a craftsman. In the 1930s he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop
Nectarius, but without the right to celebrate the Liturgy. In 1932 he was
arrested for being a secret priest and sentenced to three years’ exile and sent
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