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Maria Alexeyevna Sergeyeva was born in 1909 in Yersubaikino, Yamashi
uyezd into a peasant family, and received an elementary education. She lived
in the village of Kuzaikino as a free peasant. On October 25, 1949 she was
arrested for “organized anti-Soviet activity” and was accused that: “by dint of
her hostile attitude to the existing state order, she entered the anti-Soviet
organization of the True Orthodox Church, and systematically conducted
anti-Soviet agitation”. On February 15, 1950 she was sentenced to ten years in
the camps with disenfranchisement for five years, and was sent to Siblag. On
October 25, 1959 she was released after serving her term. Nothing more is
known about her.
Olga Alexeyevna Sergeyeva was born in 1920 in Yersubaikino, Yamashi
uyezd into a peasant family, and received an elementary education. She lived
in the village of Kuzaikino as a free peasant. On October 25, 1949 she was
arrested for “organized anti-Soviet activity” and was accused that: “by dint of
her hostile attitude to the existing state order, she entered the anti-Soviet
organization of the True Orthodox Church, and systematically organized and
conducted illegal meetings in her house, carrying out anti-Soviet agitation
among the population”. On February 15, 1950 she was sentenced to ten years
in the camps with disenfranchisement for five years, and was sent to Siblag.
On October 25, 1959 she was released after serving her term. Nothing more is
known about her.
(Sources: Les Cahiers du Samizdat, April, 1978; Russkoye Vozrozhdeniye,
1978, N 4, pp. 39-42; Schema-Monk Epiphanius (Chernov), Tserkov’
Katakombnaya na Zemlye Rossijskoj (MS), 1980; I.M. Andreyev, Russia's
Catacomb Saints, Platina: St. Herman Monastery Press, 1982, chapter 42;
Chronicle of Current Events, no. 32, p. 80; Bishop Ambrose (von Sievers),
“Episkopat Istinno-Pravoslavnoj Katakombnoj Tserkvi”, Russkoye
Pravoslaviye, N 4 (8), 1997, pp. 14-15; “Katakombnaya Tserkov’: Tainij Soboer
1948g.”, Russkoye Pravoslaviye, N 5 (9), 1997, pp. 20, 27; I.I. Osipova, Skvoz’
Ogn’ Muchenij i Vody Slyoz”, Moscow: Serebryanniye Niti, 1998, pp. 180-182,
259; "ОPremudrij… Budi s nami neotsupno…" Vospominaniya veruyuschikh
Istinno-Pravoslavnoj (Katakombnoj) Tserkvi. Konets 1920-x – nachalo 1970-x
godov (‘O All-Merciful God… Remain with us without ceasing…’
Reminiscences of Believers of the True Orthodox (Catacomb) Church. End of
the 1920s – beginning of the 1930s), Moscow, 2008, pp. 148-149;
http://www.katakomb.ru/2/canon.html; http://www.histor-iptkt.org/KNIGA/tatar.html)
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