Evdokia (Tkachenko)

Evdokia lived in the Iveron-Seraphim Monastery in the city of Verny, Semirechensk Oblast.

In the summer of 1918, she went to the skete near the city of Verny in the mountainous area of Medeo on Mokhnataya Hill to confess and receive communion from Hieromonk Seraphim (Bogoslovsky). He heard her confession but did not give her communion because she had absentmindedly eaten a poppy head and sent her back to the monastery. (He later lamented, "If I had known she would be killed, I would have communed her.")

That evening, Red Army soldiers came to the Iveron-Seraphim Monastery and demanded the nuns hand over Abbess Euphrosyne (Bakurevich), as she was the daughter of a general. The nuns hid her among sacks of flour in a barn, and the frustrated soldiers took Nuns Evdokia and Animaissa for execution instead. They placed the nuns against the monastery wall and shot them. A bullet hit Nun Evdokia in the head, disfiguring her face, while Nun Animaissa was wounded in the shoulder. The sisters took her in, and she eventually recovered from her injury. Evdokia's friend, Nun Theodora, was so traumatized by the execution and the disfigurement of Evdokia's face that she fell ill from the shock and couldn't forget the bloody and disfigured face. Venerable Martyr Evdokia then appeared to her in a dream, saying, "Theodora, why are you crying? Why are you afraid? Don't cry, you see that I am just as I was." After this, Theodora no longer saw Evdokia's face as disfigured and was healed.

On August 11, 1993, Nun Evdokia was canonized as a locally venerated saint of the Alma-Ata Diocese by the Synodal Commission of the Moscow Patriarchate.

She was glorified for universal veneration by the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church from August 13-16, 2000, and included among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.