Pavel Nikolaevich Dobromyslov

He was born in 1877 in the village of Polyany, Ryazan District, Ryazan Region, in a priest's family. He graduated from the theological academy.

From 1914 to 1916, he served in the Nikolo-Dvoryanskaya Church in Ryazan. Simultaneously, he taught at the diocesan women's school, was a member of the Ryazan diocesan missionary committee, a district spiritual investigator, a law teacher at Zelitrov's private male gymnasium, a member of the Ryazan Theological Seminary's board, and a member of the Spiritual Consistory.

In 1918, when the White Guards approached Moscow, Father Pavel, as a respected person in the city, was taken to the capital as a hostage. Soon (immediately after the Whites retreated), he was released.

He was appointed rector of the Nativity of Christ Cathedral in Ryazan. For several months, he served in the village of Solotcha in the Ryazan province.

In 1928, he was arrested and sentenced to exile in Semipalatinsk. After Father Pavel was exiled, his family members were declared "deprived," meaning they had to live without bread and work. Former parishioners helped the exiled family as much as they could. In Kazakhstan, he herded horses in the steppe and performed other hard work.

In the 1930s, just returned from Kazakhstan, Father Pavel was exiled to the Solovki Special Purpose Camp. Between exiles and imprisonments, he served in various churches in Ryazan and was spiritually close to Archbishop Juvenaly (Maslovsky), who then held the Ryazan see. After Juvenaly's arrest in 1936-1937, Father Pavel served in Solotcha and in the village of Gavrilovka in the Spassky District of the Ryazan Region.

He was arrested on March 26, 1938, and held in the Ryazan prison.

On May 29, 1938, he was sentenced under Articles 58-10, 11. He was accused of "... being an active participant in a counter-revolutionary organization of churchmen, expressing sharp insurgent and terrorist sentiments against the leaders of the VKP(b) and the Soviet government." He was sentenced to eight years in a labor camp.

He arrived in Karlag on July 16, 1938, where he worked on the Central Industrial Gardens in general labor. A medical examination diagnosed him with severe senile decrepitude, classifying him as Group "B" disabled. In the barrack where the prisoners lived, the stove was lit and the damper closed early. Everyone was poisoned by carbon monoxide but survived, except for Father Pavel. This happened at the Chur-Nurinskoye branch of Karlag on February 9, 1940.

On May 23, 1958, he was rehabilitated by the Ryazan Regional Court for the 1938 repressions, and on December 18, 1992, he was rehabilitated by the Ryazan Regional Prosecutor's Office for the 1926 repressions.

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