(1903 - 1942) – Martyr
Commemoration on January 11 (December 29 O.S.) in the Assembly of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.
She was born in 1903 in the village of Urleyko, Kandopolskiy District, Penza Region, into a peasant family.
In 1930, she was arrested by the GPU authorities. In 1937, she was sentenced under Article 61 of the Criminal Code to 2 years of imprisonment.
Upon completion of her sentence, she was released from prison in 1939.
She was re-arrested on November 1, 1940.
On January 4, 1941, she was sentenced by the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Penza Region under Article 58-10 to 10 years of imprisonment. She was sent to Karlag.
On September 29, 1941, the Permanent Session of the Karaganda Regional Court at Karlag of the NKVD sentenced Agrippina Tikhonovna Kiseleva to the highest measure of punishment – execution by shooting for counter-revolutionary activities.
The sentence was carried out on January 11, 1942.
She was canonized as a martyr at the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
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