Alexander Makhetov

Saint Hieromartyr Alexander Makhetov (1868 to 1918) was a priest in the village of Lyonva, in the Perm province, and was killed by the Bolsheviks in the autumn of 1918. He is commemorated on 20 June, on 7 February with the synaxis of the new martyrs, on 14 February with the saints of the Perm metropolis, and on 11 October with the saints of Chelyabinsk.

He was born in 1868 in the Yuryuzan-⁠Ivanovsky plant, Zlatoust district, Ufa province, into the family of the peasant Nicholas Makhetov. In 1887 he finished the teachers' seminary at Blagoveshchensk and was appointed teacher and teacher of religion at the district school in Sepychevo, Okhansk district, Perm province; in 1888 he was moved to the school at Speshkovo, and in 1890 to that at Shlykovo. On 26 November 1894 he was ordained deacon at the church of the Archangel Michael at the Orphanage in Kungur and appointed teacher in its first class. In 1900 he was moved to the church of the Transfiguration at Novo-⁠Usolsk and appointed teacher at the parish school. On 8 June 1901 he passed the examination for the priestly rank, and on 2 June 1902 was ordained priest at the church of the Holy Trinity in the village of Lyonva, Solikamsk district (today within the city of Berezniki), and appointed teacher of religion at the village girls' school. He was elected a member of the deanery council for the years 1912 to 1914.

In the autumn of 1918 the priest Alexander Makhetov was arrested by the Bolsheviks; they nailed his left hand, and into the right they put a cross; then the tormentors began to stab him with bayonets and finally shot him.