Maria Ivanovna Dmitriyevskaya

Born in Moscow in 1879 into a priest's family, she completed secondary education and got married. Her husband served as a priest, and they had two daughters. Maria Ivanovna was characterized by a strict inner discipline and a desire to do good deeds. She was drawn to the monastic way of life, which emphasized serving Christ and others. She became a member of the "Sisterhood of St. Cyprian," which mainly consisted of Ivanovo monastics whose monasteries had been closed. Along with the nuns she was helping, Maria Ivanovna was arrested on April 27, 1937.

Nuns Margarita, Fevronia, Tamara, and the priest's wife Maria Ivanovna were all part of the same group case "Sisterhood of St. Cyprian, Ivanovo region, 1937."

Nuns Margarita and Tamara were sentenced to 5 years, while Nun Fevronia and Maria Ivanovna were sentenced to 3 years of exile in Kazakhstan. Even in exile, they stayed together and settled in the village of Mayskoye, Beskaragay District, Pavlodar Region, engaging in joint prayer.

On December 3, 1937, they were all re-arrested and a new group case was made "Margarita Zakachurina and others, Pavlodar, 1937."

On December 4, the investigation concluded with the final verdict: the highest measure of punishment - execution.

She was canonized as a holy martyr and confessor by the Russian Orthodox Church at the Jubilee Bishops' Council in 2000 for general church veneration.