(1880 - 1937) – Venerable Martyr
Commemoration day on August 27 (August 14 O.S.), in the Assembly of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
Evdokia Alexandrovna Perevoznova was born on February 7, 1880, in the village of Cherenkovo, Salvichutsky District, Vologda Province, into a peasant family.
Before the October Revolution, she lived in a monastery and in subsequent years worked as a seamstress in a workshop under the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the Soviets. Later, she followed Metropolitan Kirill (Smirnov) into exile, taking care of him and assisting him. She lived in the village of Yany-Kurgan in the Chimkent Region, where she served as a cell attendant for Metropolitan Kirill.
On July 13, 1937, she was arrested in Chimkent for "belonging to a counter-revolutionary church organization." She did not plead guilty. On August 23, 1937, she was sentenced to death by the Special Troika of the NKVD for the South Kazakhstan Region.
She was executed by shooting on August 27, 1937, near Chimkent.
She was glorified by the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
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