Alexander Krylov

Saint Hieromartyr Alexander Krylov (born 1879) was a priest in the village of Lyapuny, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, and was shot on 11 November 1937, together with the priest Paul Borisoglebsky. He is commemorated on 20 November, on 7 February with the synaxis of the new martyrs, and on 12 September with the saints of Nizhny Novgorod.

Alexander Ivanovich Krylov was born in 1879 in the village of Vargany, Lyskovo district, Nizhny Novgorod province. He served as priest in the village of Lyapuny, in the Lyskovo district. On 17 September 1937 he was arrested on the basis of testimony extracted by torture from people arrested earlier. He was accused of having taken part in setting fire to twenty houses and a haystack in the village of Ostrovskoe, the collective farm yard in Uvarovo and the mill in Gugino. Father Alexander rejected all the charges. On 11 November 1937 the NKVD troika sentenced him to death and he was shot.

In the same case the priest Paul Vasilyevich Borisoglebsky was arrested, born at Vasilsursk in the Nizhny Novgorod province, who served in the village of Plotinskoe. He was arrested on 24 July 1937 and accused of having made anti-⁠Soviet remarks while in exile in 1930 to 1931. He did not admit guilt. On 11 November 1937 he was sentenced to death and shot.