Dimitri Konstantinovich Legeido

He came from a hereditary Cossack family. In 1904, he graduated from the Tiflis Theological Seminary and was ordained a deacon at the church in the village of Frolov Kut, Stavropol Province; later, he was ordained a priest at the church in the village of Neberdzhaevskaya, Temryuk District, Kuban Region.

In 1918, while in Neberdzhaevskaya during the presence of the White Army, Father Dimitri interceded for a Red Army prisoner sentenced to death and saved his life; he also provided food to Red Army prisoners.

In August 1931, he was appointed to serve in the Ascension Church in the city of Gelendzhik, North Caucasus region. His active pastoral work and sermons soon attracted the attention of the OGPU.

On April 21, 1932, he was arrested on charges of "anti-Soviet agitation," denying his guilt, he only admitted saying: "...the more people sin, the stricter the punishments will be."

On November 28, 1932, he was sentenced to 3 years of exile in Kazakhstan by a special meeting of the OGPU Collegium. In Shymkent, he worked as a cashier-accountant.

On September 11, 1937, he was arrested and held in Shymkent prison. On September 14, during interrogation, he stated that he did not participate in counter-revolutionary activities.

On November 19, 1937, by the decision of the Special Troika of the NKVD for the South Kazakhstan region, he was sentenced to 10 years in a labor camp.

On January 21, 1938, he arrived at the 10th division of the Baikal-Amur Corrective Labor Camp. Shortly thereafter, he was arrested again and on March 21, 1938, sentenced to execution by the Special Troika of the NKVD for the Far East. He died in prison before the sentence was carried out.

He was glorified by the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.