(1907 - 1942) – Martyr
Commemoration on January 11 (December 29, O.S.), in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church, as well as in the Synaxis of the Voronezh and Lipetsk Saints.
She was born in 1907 in the village of Donskiye Izbishchi, Zadonsk District, Voronezh Province (now Lebedyansky District, Lipetsk Region), into a peasant family.
In 1940, she was arrested. On October 23 of the same year, the Judicial Collegium of the Ryazan Region charged her under Articles 58-10, part 2, and 58-11 of the RSFSR Criminal Code for "being part of an anti-Soviet group of church people, conducting anti-Soviet agitation." She was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment.
On January 11, 1941, the sentence was revised by the Supreme Court of the USSR to 10 years of correctional labor camp under the group case "Nazina D.I., Ryazan Region, 1940." She served her sentence in the NKVD Karaganda region correctional labor camp in Kazakhstan.
On July 11, 1941, she was re-arrested in the camp on charges of "counter-revolutionary agitation in the camp." She was implicated in the group case "Sundukova N.I., Karlag, 1941." She did not plead guilty and refused to sign the interrogation protocol.
On September 29 of the same year, at a permanent session of the Karaganda Regional Court at the NKVD Karlag, she was convicted under Articles 58-10 part 2 and 58-11 of the RSFSR Criminal Code. She was sentenced to death.
She was executed on January 11, 1942. The place of burial is unknown.
On April 30, 1998, she was rehabilitated by the Prosecutor of the Karaganda Region for the 1937 repressions.
In August 2000, she was canonized among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia for general Church veneration at the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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