Alexander Sidorov

Saint Hieromartyr Alexander Sidorov (1868 to 1918) was a priest at the church of Saint Nicholas in the town of Dalmatovo, in the Perm province, and was killed by the Bolsheviks on 10 July 1918 (27 June by the old calendar), at Dalmatovo station, together with the priest Vladimir Sergeev. They are commemorated on 10 July and on 7 February with the synaxis of the new martyrs.

Vladimir was born on 3 July 1868 in the town of Dalmatovo, into the family of the peasant Michael Sergeev. In 1890 he finished the Perm seminary and was appointed supervisor at the church school in Yekaterinburg. In 1891 he was ordained priest at the church of Saint Nicholas in Dalmatovo, a town of some eight thousand inhabitants. From 1899 he taught religion at the two-⁠class monastic school of Dalmatovo, and from 1909 at the four-⁠class town school. He was a zealous pastor and several times rewarded by the diocesan authorities.

Alexander was born on 30 August 1868 in the Nizhny Ufaley plant, Yekaterinburg district, into the family of the peasant Basil Sidorov. After six classes of the boys' gymnasium in Yekaterinburg, in 1890 he was appointed teacher at the school in Kyshtov. In 1895 he was moved to the school at Revda and in the same year was released from the peasant estate and received into the clerical estate. On 10 December 1895 he was ordained deacon at the church of the Ascension in the village of Kuznetskoe, Yekaterinburg district, and on 22 July 1897 priest at the church of Saint Nicholas in Dalmatovo.

The priests Vladimir Sergeev and Alexander Sidorov were tortured by the godless Bolsheviks on 27 June (10 July) 1918, at Dalmatovo station. Father Alexander the Red Guard executioners lifted on bayonets and filled his mouth with earth.