Alexander Kurmyshsky

Saint Hieromartyr Alexander Kurmyshsky (1879 to 1937) was a priest in the village of Tanaikovo, in the Perevoz district, Nizhny Novgorod region, and was shot on 11 November 1937, together with three other priests. 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.

He was born in 1879 at Simbirsk. He finished the seminary and served at the church in the village of Tanaikovo, in the Perevoz district, Nizhny Novgorod region. In the night of 20 to 21 October 1937 he was arrested, with other priests of the district, on a charge of having led an "anti-⁠Soviet group". The investigation lasted less than a month. On 11 November he was sentenced to death and shot together with Alexander Ilinsky, Paulinus Staropolev and Nicholas Troitsky. At the interrogations the martyrs conducted themselves with dignity and rejected all the charges.