Evdokia Ivanovna Guseva

Evdokia Ivanovna Guseva was born in 1912 in the village of Burminka, Novoderevensky District, Ryazan Province, into a priest's family.

On May 24, 1940, she was detained in the village of Galino, Pronsky (now Skopinsky) District, Ryazan Region, along with Evdokia Nazina and Matrona Navolokina. The detainees were accused of "anti-Soviet agitation" because the women, who were on a pilgrimage to Ryazan, sang spiritual hymns in the house where they stayed overnight.

She was held in Pronsk prison. During interrogation, she stated: "The Soviet government goes against God, and therefore we do not believe in or love the Soviet government."

In early June, she was transferred to the Novoderevensky District Department of the OGPU. On June 6, an official warrant for her arrest was issued. She was part of the group case "Nazina D.I.; Ryazan, 1940." She was held in Ryazhsk prison and refused to give further testimony. At her trial, she declared: "I do not plead guilty to anything, I believe in God, and I prayed to God."

On October 25, 1940, at an off-site session of the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Ryazan Regional Court in Ryazhsk, she was sentenced to six years in a labor camp. She served her sentence in the KarLag NKVD.

On July 11, 1941, she was arrested in the camp on charges of "counter-revolutionary agitation and sabotage." She was part of the group case "Sundukova N.I.; KarLag, 1941." She did not plead guilty and refused to sign the interrogation protocol.

On September 29, she was sentenced to death by the permanent session of the Karaganda Regional Court at the KarLag NKVD.

She was executed on January 11, 1942, and buried in an unmarked common grave.

On April 30, 1998, she was rehabilitated by the prosecutor of the Karaganda Region.

She was glorified as a holy new martyr and confessor of Russia in August 2000 by the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.