Nikolai Nikolaevich Amasiysky

He was born in 1889 in the village of Savelievka, Nikolaevsky Uyezd, Samara Governorate (Saratov Krai, Pugachevsky District, according to the administrative division of the 1930s) into the family of priest Nikolai Vasilyevich Amasiysky.

In 1897, he entered the preparatory class of Nikolaevsk Theological School, where he studied for six years. He was expelled for indiscipline. In 1902, his father had to send Nikolai to Volsk Theological School, entering the 4th grade. He graduated from Volsk School in one and a half years.

In 1904, he entered Samara Theological Seminary, completed two classes, and was expelled in 1906 for active participation in student strikes.

From 1906 to 1907, he lived in the village of Davydovka, where his father served as a priest, and prepared for exams to become a teacher.

At the end of 1907, he started working as a psalmist in the church of the village of Semenovka, Nikolaevsky Uyezd, Samara Governorate.

In 1908, he married Olga Ivanovna Akhmatova, the daughter of a priest. Subsequently, they had children: Alexander, Nina, Vera, and Sergey.

In 1914, he was ordained a deacon to the same church.

In 1917, he was ordained a priest and served in the city of Pugachev from 1917 to 1918.

From 1918 to 1922, he served in the village of Smorodinka, Perelyubsky District, Saratov Region.

On December 9, 1922, his father, Priest Nikolai Vasilyevich Amasiysky, was consecrated as Bishop of Pugachev by renovationist bishops and strayed into the renovationist movement with his father. In 1923, he was transferred by his father from the village to the "old" cathedral of the city of Pugachev.

In 1923, after repentance, Bishop Nikolai was accepted into the Orthodox Church in his existing rank and remained on the same see. Priest Nikolai also repented for joining the renovationist movement and participated in the reconsecration of the "old" cathedral. He continued his service in the city of Pugachev.

On October 2, 1934, he was arrested by the Pugachev RO NKVD for "anti-Soviet agitation among believers." He was involved in the group case "the case of Father Nikolai Amasiysky, Father Konstantin Samuilov, and others, Saratov Region, Pugachev, 1934." He was accused of receiving a proposal from a member of a counter-revolutionary group for joint organized anti-Soviet activities, not reporting this to the authorities, and concealing the group's practical counter-revolutionary activities. He fully admitted his guilt under Article 58, paragraph 12, of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR.

By the decree of the Special Meeting of the NKVD USSR on March 17, 1935, he was exiled to Kazakhstan for three years, starting from October 2, 1934. He lived in the village of Maiskoye, Beskaragai District, Pavlodar Region.

On November 25, 1937, he was arrested again, and on December 1, 1937, he was sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp by the NKVD troika of the East Kazakhstan Region.

He died on December 26, 1938, in detention.

On October 10, 1988, he was rehabilitated by the decree of the Presidium of the Saratov Regional Court for the archival criminal case of 1934-35.

He was canonized among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia by the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in August 2000 for general church veneration.