Alexander Ilinsky

Saint Hieromartyr Alexander Ilinsky (1899 to 1937) was a priest in the Nizhny Novgorod province and was shot in 1937, together with three other priests of the Perevoz district. He is commemorated on 20 November, on 7 February with the synaxis of the new martyrs and confessors of the Russian Church, and on 12 September with the saints of Nizhny Novgorod.

In the night of 20 to 21 October 1937 the priests of the Perevoz district, Nizhny Novgorod region, were arrested: Alexander Ilinsky (born 1899), Alexander Kurmyshsky (born 1879), Paulinus Staropolev (born 1865) and Nicholas Troitsky (born 1885). All were accused of having led an "anti-⁠Soviet group". The investigation lasted less than a month, and on 11 November all four were sentenced to death and shot.

The priest Alexander Ivanovich Ilinsky was born in 1899 in the village of Pustyn, Nizhny Novgorod province. He served in the village of Bolshie Kemary. He was accused, like the others, of having been the leader of an anti-⁠Soviet group and of having shown discontent with the Soviet authorities. The priest Alexander Mikhailovich Kurmyshsky was born in 1879 at Simbirsk, finished the seminary and served in the village of Tanaikovo. The priest Paulinus Ivanovich Staropolev was born in 1865 in the village of Bykovy Gory, Spassk district, Nizhny Novgorod province, finished the seminary and served in the village of Dubskoe. The priest Nicholas Alexeevich Troitsky was born in 1885 in the village of Lobaski, Ichalki district, in Mordovia, and served in the village of Revezen. At the interrogations the martyrs conducted themselves with dignity and rejected all the charges.