Alexei Budrin

Holy Hieromartyr Alexei Budrin was a priest, a priest's son, and a deputy of the Fourth State Duma from Perm province. He was killed by the Bolsheviks on 10 September 1918 or on 15 September, at Krasnoufimsk. He was glorified among the saints as a hieromartyr by the Council of Bishops in the year 2000. His commemoration is on 28 August by the old calendar (10 September by the new).

He was born into a priest's family, in Perm province. After graduating from the Perm seminary (1882), he served as priest in the village of Syrinskoye, Krasnoufimsk district (1883 to 1887). From 1887 to 1892 he was religion teacher at the Krasnoufimsk real school, and from 1891 class inspector and religion teacher at the Perm diocesan school for girls. Then he was sacristan of the Perm cathedral and member of the Perm spiritual consistory (1896 to 1909).

In 1909 he was raised to the rank of archpriest, and in December of the same year appointed rector of the Krasnoufimsk cathedral. He was also dean of the city district and chairman of the Krasnoufimsk district branch of the diocesan school council. Elected by the city duma, he was a member of the school council, of the pedagogical and trustees council of the local girls' gymnasium and of the trustees council of the industrial school, and chairman of the parish church trusteeship. In 1912 he was elected a member of the State Duma from Perm province by the congress of landowners (he had three hundred and fifty desyatins of church land and a house in Perm). He belonged to the faction of the Russian nationalists and moderate right, and after its split in August 1915 to the group of progressive nationalists and the Progressive Bloc. He was secretary of the editorial commission (from 2 December 1916) and a member of the commissions for the execution of the budget, for confessional questions, the administrative commission and that for the affairs of the Orthodox Church.

After the October Revolution he remained in Petrograd, as priest at the church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Equal to the Apostles, at the Ivanovo girls' school. Then he returned to Perm province and was priest in one of the churches of the Krasnoufimsk district. He was shot by the Bolsheviks in September 1918. He was married and had six children: Alexander (1883), Stefan (1885), Kapitolina (1886), Lidia (1889), Alexei (1891) and Lyubov (1893).