Ioann Ivanovich Zasedatelev

Ioann Ivanovich Zasedatelev was born in 1867 in the village of Okatnaya Maza, Khvalynsk Uyezd, Saratov Governorate. He was ordained in 1896. Until 1920, he served in the Old Believer Church of the village of Korneevka, Nikolayevsk Uyezd, Samara Governorate.

On September 5, 1934, he was arrested by the NKVD and sentenced by a Special Meeting. The charge was "participation in an anti-Soviet organization among the clergy." On March 17, 1935, he was sentenced by the Special Meeting of the NKVD of the USSR for Saratov Region to three years of exile in Kazakhstan. After serving his term, he returned to the Saratov region and lived in the city of Pugachyov.

He was arrested again in 1941. Between September 21 and December 21, 1941, his house was searched seven times, but only 85 rubles were found.

On December 21, 1941, a traveling session of the Saratov Regional Court in Pugachyov sentenced Ioann Zasedatelev to execution by shooting.

He appealed to the Supreme Court of the RSFSR with a cassation petition.

On March 14, 1942, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the USSR reviewed the protest of the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the USSR against the sentence of the Saratov Regional Court from December 21, 1941, and decided:

"To change the sentence of the Saratov Regional Court, replacing the execution of Zasedatelev I. I. with imprisonment in a correctional labor camp for a term of 10 years."

Ioann Zasedatelev was sent to the Karlag, arriving there on October 25, 1942.

On October 29, 1942, he died at the Karabas station of the Karlag from right-sided pneumonia and exhaustion.

According to the archival criminal case for 1934-35, Ioann Zasedatelev was rehabilitated by the Presidium of the Saratov Regional Court on October 10, 1988, and for the 1941-42 case by the Saratov Regional Prosecutor's Office on March 24, 1994.

He was canonized by the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in August 2000 for general church veneration.