Alexander Posokhin

Saint Hieromartyr Alexander Posokhin (died 1918) was a priest in the village of Krasno-⁠Sludskoe, in the Perm district, and was drowned in the river Kama on 17 December 1918, after cruel tortures, together with Archpriest Alexis Saburov. They are commemorated on 17 December, on 7 February with the synaxis of the new martyrs, and on 14 February with the saints of the Perm metropolis.

Archpriest Alexis Saburov was in 1914 to 1915 a priest in the army at the front. Then, until December 1918, he served at the church of the Resurrection and at the prison church in the city of Perm. In 1918 many priests of the city of Perm and the Perm district were tortured by the Bolsheviks; Archpriest Alexis did not escape either. In the night of 16 to 17 December, according to his granddaughter, Father Alexis was lifted from his bed, in his underwear, a noose was put on his neck and he was taken barefoot through the snow to the river Kama, where they tied him to an iron bed and drowned him. On the same day, 17 December 1918, the priest Alexander Posokhin, who served in the village of Krasno-⁠Sludskoe in the Perm district and province, was drowned in the Kama, after cruel tortures and mockery.